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Alexandr Wang
Alexandr Wang's file: Scale AI, data, defense work, Meta, and the executive push to turn massive training pipelines into personal superintelligence.
Wang left MIT to turn training data into an empire, raised Scale AI through successive billion-dollar valuations, embedded the company across frontier labs and defense work, then crossed into Meta in a deal valuing Scale above $29 billion.
HOW THE HELL DID ALEXANDR WANG GET HERE?
2016
HE DROPS OUT OF MIT AND BUILDS THE DATA LAYER
Wang founded Scale in 2016 after studying AI at MIT, betting that machine learning's expanding appetite for labeled and structured data would become infrastructure.
Aug 2019
SCALE BECOMES A BILLION-DOLLAR COMPANY
Scale announced a $100 million Series C as demand grew for the data infrastructure behind machine-learning systems.
RECEIPTS: Scale AIfirst-party
Apr 2021
THE DATA FACTORY RAISES ANOTHER $325 MILLION
Scale announced a $325 million Series E as it pushed its data platform across industries using machine learning.
RECEIPTS: Scale AIfirst-party
May 21, 2024
SCALE HITS A $13.8 BILLION VALUATION
Scale closed a $1 billion financing transaction at a $13.8 billion valuation, describing itself as the data foundry behind leading frontier-model developers.
RECEIPTS: Scale AIfirst-party
Jun 12, 2025 – Jun 30, 2025
META BUYS IN — THEN HANDS WANG THE SUPERINTELLIGENCE LAB
Meta invested in Scale at a valuation above $29 billion; Wang left the CEO job to join Meta, and weeks later was put in charge of Meta Superintelligence Labs as chief AI officer.