Alumni of Meta (Facebook) · Menlo Park

Meta Mafia

Early Facebook engineers built work tools and Q&A; Meta's AI research group FAIR seeded Europe's best-funded model lab.

3alumni startups
3named on Labspie
6founders
$15.8bnin unicorn valuations
AsanaDustin Moskovitz, Justin RosensteinQuoraAdam D'Angelo, Charlie CheeverMistral AIGuillaume Lample, Timothée LacroixMeta

The companies

CompanyFounded by (Meta (Facebook) alumni)FieldBased inValuation
Asana
Work management for teams.
Dustin Moskovitz, Justin RosensteinB2BSan Francisco, United States–
Quora
Questions and answers, and the Poe AI chat app.
Adam D'Angelo, Charlie CheeverConsumerMountain View, United States$1.8bn
Mistral AI
Open-weight and commercial language models.
Guillaume Lample, Timothée LacroixAIParis, France$14bn

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