AI is exciting

(But you know what’s even more exciting?)

The recycling of talent and capital that the biggest AI companies are about to produce.

Let me explain:

When a company becomes wildly successful, two things happen:

1. Employees make money (great)

2. And many of them go on to start their own startups

That's how ecosystems are created, one after the other.

In just the last 12 months, employees from these companies have gone on to start the following number of startups:

Meta - 695 startups

Stripe - 164

Nvidia - 162

Palantir - 146

Shopify - 146

Airbnb - 139

Perplexity - 105

Google DeepMind - 99

OpenAI - 97

Scale AI - 96

Robinhood - 48

Lovable - 46

Anthropic - 44

Deel - 40

Canva - 36

Ramp - 36

Notion - 26

Figma - 18

Cohere - 17

n8n - 13

Replit - 12

Kalshi - 4

Harvey - 4

Legora - 3

Today’s employees become tomorrow’s founders and at this speed of innovation changing daily, I don't see it slowing down anytime soon.

Curious how many startups a company’s former employees have launched in the past 12 months? Comment the company below and I’ll tell you!