I was looking at public career-history movement data and found a pattern I didn’t expect. Stripe seems to be a major feeder into frontier AI companies. Top observed outbound moves from Stripe: OpenAI: 296 Anthropic: 289 Google: 179 Meta: 127 Amazon: 75 Databricks: 70 Microsoft: 58 Snowflake: 53 Cursor: 38 The surprising part is the concentration. In this dataset, OpenAI and Anthropic together are over 26% of Stripe’s observed outbound movement. Reverse movement is tiny: OpenAI -> Stripe: 4 Anthropic -> Stripe: 2 So Stripe looks less like a normal fintech company in the talent graph and more like a training ground for people who end up at AI labs. Obvious caveats: public career-history data, profile-update bias, not compensation/culture/quality, and counts are not unique “job changes” with perfect timing. But directionally this is interesting. Why would Stripe be such a strong AI-lab feeder? infra-heavy engineering culture? high hiring bar? startup/product people becoming AI product/infrastructure people? ex-Stripe network effects? data artifact? Source/methodology: https://talentflow.fyi/methodology submitted by /u/Overall-Suspect7760
Originally posted by u/Overall-Suspect7760 on r/ArtificialInteligence
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