The 'Hugging Face mafia' map: ex-employees' startup empire, explorable for any company
TheZachMueller · x · 2026-10-24
A shared graph maps the 'Hugging Face Mafia'—ex-employees like Nazneen Rajani, Mark McQuade, Nathan Lambert and others and the companies they founded or joined. The underlying tool (Cosign) lets you explore ex-employee founder networks for any company, similar to the OpenAI mafia maps.
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