YC Founders’ Path to OpenAI and Anthropic Says a Lot About Where AI Talent Comes From
For anyone building with Claude or Claude Code, this is a useful little map of the talent pipeline behind the labs. Startups.RIP took 105 YC founders who later showed up at OpenAI or Anthropic and turned their careers into a sortable ledger, which makes the migration feel less like a vibe and more like an actual pattern. Startups.RIP tracks 105 unique YC founder journeys that end up at OpenAI or Anthropic. The ledger breaks them down as 70 at OpenAI and 35 at Anthropic. The peopl
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