See where YC founders go after their startup is acquired or shut down

Steered OpenAI for one extraordinary weekend in 2023.

Worked on strategy, then moved to Google Workspace GenAI.

Product engineer building Claude APIs/SDKs & platform

Moved from startup operations into OpenAI in 2026.

MTS on search evals, RAG & agentic AI

Working on Anthropic's compute team with Tom Brown.

Worked on post-training and alignment, then founded Linzumi.

Distinguished Engineer leading robotics & next-gen consumer hardware

Led technical work on the GPT-3 API and Applied AI.

Claude Code TL / Member of Technical Staff

Research Engineer; core contributor to o1 and GPT-4V

Once CEOs & CTOs, everyone is a Member of Technical Staff now.

Counting each YC chapter by batch year shows when these founders came through. A founder with two YC startups appears in both years.

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