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Emmett Shear: From Twitch to OpenAI's Interim CEO to Softmax

Emmett Shear co-founded Justin.tv, which became Twitch — one of the defining consumer products of the 2010s. He ran OpenAI for four days in November 2023 during the board crisis. In 2024 he founded Softmax to work on AI alignment.

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Alexandr Wang: From MIT Dropout to Meta's Chief AI Officer

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Alexandr Wang: From MIT Dropout to Meta's Chief AI Officer

Alexandr Wang founded Scale AI at 19 and became one of the youngest self-made billionaires. In 2025 Meta acquired a 49% stake in Scale and brought Wang in to lead its superintelligence lab.

Alexandr WangMeta Superintelligence Labs (formerly Scale AI)

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