105 YC founders now work at OpenAI or Anthropic - 60% under one title
Startups.RIP tracked every YC founder whose startup was acquired or shut down and who then joined one of the two labs. 70 landed at OpenAI, 35 at Anthropic.
- 63 of them, 60% of all roles, carry the same title: Member of Technical Staff
- sortable table plus a ribbon chart tracing each path from founding year to lab
- free, no signup, built on a base of 1,841 startup post-mortems
The flat title is the story: a generation of CEOs and CTOs absorbed into one job description.
https://joinedanthropic.com/
Startups.RIP tracked every YC founder whose startup was acquired or shut down and who then joined one of the two labs. 70 landed at OpenAI, 35 at Anthropic.
- 63 of them, 60% of all roles, carry the same title: Member of Technical Staff
- sortable table plus a ribbon chart tracing each path from founding year to lab
- free, no signup, built on a base of 1,841 startup post-mortems
The flat title is the story: a generation of CEOs and CTOs absorbed into one job description.
https://joinedanthropic.com/