Scale AI early members form Silicon Valley's new 'Scale Mafia', says Alexandr Wang
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-26
A new Silicon Valley startup mafia is emerging: early members of Scale AI are fanning out into entrepreneurship, investing, government and frontier AI companies, spreading influence across the tech industry.
Alexandr Wang calls it the first true mafia of the modern tech era — the "Scale Mafia".
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