I asked people: "which data companies should an ambitious future founder join?"
13 votes: Mercor (
@BrendanFoody @adarsh_exe @suryamidha)
11 votes: Fleet (
@nicoup @andrewthezhou)
10 votes: Proximal (
@MatternJustus @navidkpr @calvinchen)
9 votes: Surge (
@echen)
8 votes: AfterQuery (
@CarlosGeorgescu @spencermateega)
7 votes: Mechanize (
@GuiveAssadi @tamaybes @EgeErdil2 @MatthewJBar)
6 votes: micro1 (
@aliansarinik)
4 votes: Datacurve (
@serenaa_ge @charleyslee)
4 votes: OpenAI (data team) (
@BarrAlexandra @phoebethacker)
4 votes: Preference Model (
@Ning_Catsnail)
3 votes: Bespoke Labs (
@madiator @AlexGDimakis)
2 votes: Anthropic (data team)
2 votes: Datology (
@arimorcos @hurrycane @leavittron)
2 votes: Long Lake (
@alextaubman @rasmuswissmann @varunshenoy_ @tarasholovko)
2 votes: Sieve (
@mokshith @thpicy)
People couldn't pick a company they work at or founded. Disclosure: I'm a small investor in AfterQuery and Fleet (in this post), and in Abundant, Applied Compute, Latch, Olam Labs, Trajectory and Vmax (elsewhere on the list). I didn't vote.