Already wealthy tech titans are grinding again to catch the AI wave
successful founders like blomfield and krieger are joining anthropic's technical ranks, signaling that the current ai boom is too significant to ignore.
tom blomfield and andrej karpathy recently joined anthropic as members of technical staff, a role typically devoid of executive titles. instagram co-founder mike krieger and former workday cto peter bailis made similar pivots to anthropic, while chamath palihapitiya returned to an operating role as ceo of 8090 labs with $135m in funding. these high-profile executives are sacrificing traditional status for hands-on technical work, indicating they believe the next few years of llm development will be critical and that missing this cycle poses an existential risk to their relevance.