Alexandr Wang reflects on the Scale Mafia and its founder diaspora
samsja19 · x · 2026-10-26
Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang posted a tribute to the "Scale Mafia" — early colleagues who fought alongside him and are now out changing the world. He credits Scale as one of the first companies to IOI and IMO-maxx its hiring, with the magic being geniuses who genuinely cared and ran through walls. A notable AI-circle talent-network anecdote.
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