Alexandr Wang
Background
Alexandr Wang grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the son of two nuclear physicists who worked at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. A prodigy in mathematics and coding, Wang scored in the top tier of national programming olympiads and attended MIT, where he studied mathematics and computer science while maintaining a perfect 5.0 GPA.
Role at Scale AI, Inc.
Alexandr Wang is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Scale AI, Inc. After working as a software engineer at Addepar and Quora, Wang dropped out of MIT at age 19 to participate in Y Combinator (Summer 2016), founding Scale AI to solve the fundamental data bottleneck crippling machine learning. Under Wang's visionary leadership, Scale AI scaled into a $13.8 billion global enterprise generating over $750 million in annual revenue, making Wang the world's youngest self-made billionaire at age 25. Wang has positioned Scale AI at the center of the global AI supply chain, championing American AI leadership, testifying before the US Congress, and partnering with virtually every major frontier AI lab and military command in the Western world.