Founder Profile
Alexandr Wang
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Alexandr Wang?
Alexandr Wang is a founder of Scale AI, Inc., which was founded in 2016 with Lucy Guo.
- Company founded
- Scale AI, Inc.
- Founded
- 2016
- Co-founders
- Lucy Guo
Background
Wang grew up in Los Alamos, New Mexico, the son of physicists at Los Alamos National Laboratory. He worked as a software engineer at Addepar, Quora and Hudson River Trading as a teenager, then studied at MIT for a year before leaving to start Scale.
Founding Story
Alexandr Wang co-founded Scale AI in 2016 and was its CEO until June 2025. He led the move from self-driving data into language-model training data and U.S. defense work, and Forbes named him the youngest self-made billionaire in 2022. In June 2025 he joined Meta as Chief AI Officer to lead Meta Superintelligence Labs as part of Meta's $14.3 billion investment. He remains chairman of Scale's board.
Alexandr Wang was born in 1997. Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Los Alamos High School.