Monzo联合创始人、前Y Combinator合伙人Tom Blomfield本周一宣布将休假加入Anthropic计算团队，担任技术成员。 Instagram联合创始人Mike Krieger已于2024年加入Anthropic任首席产品官； OpenAI创始成员Andrej Karpathy今年5月加入Anthropic预训练团队。 "SPAC之王"Chamath Palihapitiya出任其企业AI编程初创公司8090 Labs的CEO，该公司刚完成由Salesforce Ventures领投的1.35亿美元A轮融资。 Opendoor前CEO Eric Wu推出面向建筑工人的AI"副驾"NavigateAI，获2500万美元种子轮融资。
在那些已经取得巨大成功的人中，出现了一种趋势。他们再次卷起袖子，似乎是出于害怕错过 AI 的决定性时刻，以及想要赚取更多钱——可能是大量赚钱——的强烈诱惑。
在共同创办 GoCardless 和 Monzo 并在 Y Combinator 担任 4.5 年导师兼集团合伙人后，Tom Blomfield 周一宣布：https://x.com/t_blom/status/2076580921398931788，他将请假加入 Anthropic 的计算团队——不是作为高管，而是作为技术人员。
他并不是唯一采取这种举动的人。Instagram 联合创始人 Mike Krieger 在 2024 年加入 Anthropic 担任首席产品官，而 OpenAI 创始成员 Andrej Karpathy 后来领导特斯拉的 AI 并创办了自己的公司 Eureka Labs，他在五月加入 Anthropic 的预训练团队，并几乎以与 Blomfield 相同的方式阐述了这个决定，他写道：“未来几年在 LLM 前沿的经历将尤其具有塑造性：https://x.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312。”
并非每个人都加入别人的实验室。Chamath Palihapitiya，这位“SPAC 之王”，自 2011 年离开 Facebook 以来主要活跃于董事会和《All In：https://allin.com/about》相关事务，他刚刚担任了超过十年来的第一个全职运营职务——担任 8090 Labs 的首席执行官，这是一家他创办的企业 AI 编程初创公司，他在几周前宣布了这个消息：https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role/，同时宣布由 Salesforce Ventures 领投的 1.35 亿美元 A 轮融资。Palihapitiya 在 X 写道：“我坚信我们现在正在构建的东西甚至更为重要：https://x.com/chamath/status/2071571183665881515，因此没有其他选择，只能全力以赴。”
同样，Eric Wu 在经营 Opendoor 十年后于 2023 年退居二线，最近推出了：https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ericwu01_today-im-launching-my-newco-navigateai-activity-7465104509158150145-eWF6/ NavigateAI，一款面向建筑工人的 AI “副驾驶”，并获得了 2500 万美元的种子轮融资。Wu 最近在一次电话中直接告诉我，关于他决定投入 AI 创业的原因：“我知道如果十年后回头看，却没有做与之相关的事情，我可能会后悔。”
已经“成功”的人对他们认为仍处于人工智能早期阶段的领域投入热情的最明显迹象，可能就是职位本身。“技术人员成员”是Anthropic和OpenAI为几乎所有技术团队成员使用的一个刻意平淡、非等级化的称谓，无论资历高低。Blomfield也使用了同样的职位。
这也是Peter Bailis今年三月采用的职位，仅在成为Workday首席技术官（CTO）数月后，负责监督一家年收入80亿美元企业的人工智能策略。Bailis不到一年就放弃了这个职位：https://www.businessinsider.com/workday-cto-trades-title-member-of-technical-staff-anthropic-openai-2026-4，转而加入了Anthropic。
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A pattern is emerging among people who’ve already made it big. They’re rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI’s defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money — potentially a lot more.
Tom Blomfield, who co-founded GoCardless and Monzo before spending 4.5 years mentoring founders as a Y Combinator Group Partner, announced on Monday：https://x.com/t_blom/status/2076580921398931788 that he is taking a leave of absence to join Anthropic’s compute team — not as an executive, but as a member of technical staff.
He’s not alone in making that kind of move. Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger joined Anthropic as Chief Product Officer in 2024, and Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI who went on to lead AI at Tesla and start his own company, Eureka Labs, joined Anthropic’s pre-training team in May, framing the decision almost identically to Blomfield’s, writing that “the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative：https://x.com/karpathy/status/2056753169888334312.”
Not everyone is joining someone else’s lab. Chamath Palihapitiya, the “SPAC King” who has mostly stuck to boardrooms and all things “All In：https://allin.com/about” since leaving Facebook in 2011, just took his first full-time operating role in over a decade as CEO of 8090 Labs, his enterprise AI coding startup, which he announced a couple of weeks ago：https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/29/chamath-palihapitiya-raises-135m-series-a-for-his-ai-coding-startup-takes-ceo-role/ along with a $135 million Series A led by Salesforce Ventures. Wrote Palihapitiya on X, “I am convinced that what we are building now is even more important：https://x.com/chamath/status/2071571183665881515, so there was no decision to make except to be all in.”
Similarly, Eric Wu, who ran Opendoor for a decade before stepping back in 2023, recently launched：https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ericwu01_today-im-launching-my-newco-navigateai-activity-7465104509158150145-eWF6/ NavigateAI, an AI “copilot” for construction workers, with $25 million in seed funding. Wu told me directly on a recent call about his decision to dive into an AI startup, “I knew if I looked back in 10 years and didn’t do something related to it, I would probably regret that.”
The clearest sign of how keen people who’ve already “made it” are to work on what they view as the still-early-innings of AI might be the job title itself. “Member of technical staff” is the deliberately flat, non-hierarchical label that Anthropic and OpenAI use for nearly everyone on their technical teams, regardless of seniority. It’s the same title Blomfield is taking.
It’s also the title that Peter Bailis took this March, just months after becoming Workday’s CTO, a role overseeing AI strategy across an $8 billion-revenue business. Bailis lasted less than a year before trading it：https://www.businessinsider.com/workday-cto-trades-title-member-of-technical-staff-anthropic-openai-2026-4 for a spot at Anthropic.
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