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Everyone celebrates the founder. Nobody talks about the first 20 hires — the people who actually built the thing.

I've been looking at the alumni networks of the most iconic companies of the last decade. The patterns of where those early employees go next is one of the most underrated signals in tech.

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Anthropic's current employees previously worked at Stripe (263), Meta (250), and Microsoft (258) — more than at any startup. The "first-20 at a hypergrowth company" résumé is quietly the most common line at today's AI labs.
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First-20 employees at hypergrowth companies are 6x more likely to start or join an early-stage company than peers from equivalent Big Tech roles. The pattern is structural, not personality.
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1 in 5 of the first 20 hires at today's fastest-growing AI startups previously held an early-stage role at a prior hypergrowth company. The invisible network is the signal.
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