Scale Mafia founders list: Cognition, Modal, Bun and more trace back to Scale AI
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-26
This thread entry lists the founders of the Scale Mafia: Steven K and Russell Kaplan (Cognition), Akshat Bubna (Modal), Jarred Sumner (Bun), Melisa Tokmak (Netic), Brad Porter (Cobot), Shrav Mehta (Secureframe) and Daniel Gross (Gallatin AI) all come from the Scale AI ecosystem.
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