Anthropic loses Claude Code product lead Cat Wu and growth marketer to OpenAI
scaling01 · x · 2026-11-05
A second day of Anthropic → OpenAI departures, per Andrew Curran and commentary from scaling01:
- Austin Lau: Anthropic's first growth marketer (joined 2024), grew Claude adoption and built AI-powered marketing automation — a Claude Code Figma plugin generating ad design variants, an MCP-based Google Ads agent, live budget dashboards, daily AI briefings.
- Cat Wu: former Head of Product for Claude Code & Cowork (joined Aug 2024), key figure in turning Claude Code from an internal experiment into a major coding product; worked on Claude Code Projects, Duet, and unified desktop/web experiences.
scaling01 downplays the impact: "just" a growth marketer and a PM, not senior researchers.
Related event: Former Anthropic PM Cat Wu Joins OpenAI to Lead Core Products(27 posts)→
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