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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.

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Meta Superintelligence Labs (formerly Scale AI)

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Ali Ghodsi: Building Databricks Into the Data Lakehouse Category

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Ali Ghodsi: Building Databricks Into the Data Lakehouse Category

Ali Ghodsi joined Databricks as VP of Engineering, took over as CEO in 2016, and turned the company from a Spark commercialisation vehicle into the defining data-lakehouse platform. Databricks entered 2026 as one of the largest private technology companies in the world.

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