Alexandr Wang

🇺🇸 Alexandr Wang

🦄 From teenage engineer to AI-data mogul: Alexandr Wang landed full-time roles at 17 with Addepar and Quora. The Chinese-American born in New Mexico left MIT at the age of 19 for Y Combinator and co-founded Scale AI in 2016. He built it into a unicorn serving 300 clients—like GM and Flexport—with high-quality training data for autonomous driving and supply-chain projects. Owning about 14 % of Scale, he became the world’s youngest self-made billionaire and in 2025 secured a $14.3 billion investment from Meta transitioning to a director role.

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