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The Cruise Mafia

53 people came through Cruise and went on to found or lead other companies.

Jon McNeillVice Chairman of the BoardFounded Vistashares +2 Patrick EggenInvestorFounded Qualcomm +1 Kyle VogtCEOFounded The Bot Company +1 Daniel KanCOOFounded Exec +1 Oliver CameronVP, ProductFounded Everyme +1 Matthew DeitersDirector, Product and OperationsFounded Assembly Made +1 Sohrab HaghighatPlanning and Controls, Senior Engineering ManagerFounded Hestus, Inc. +1 Tom BachantSenior Engineering ManagerFounded Dashride +1 Phillip WangComputer Vision Engineer InternFounded Gather +1 Ayush ChordiaHead of Data SearchFounded Wrappup +1 Lawrence IbarriaAssociate Director, SimulationFounded ArgusEye +1 David BeyerInvestorFounded Chartio Leo LiangSenior Engineer Manager, Machine Learning Platform & Ground TruthFounded CipherOwl Aneel BhusriDirectorFounded Workday Kaitlyn KnoppHead of Compensation & People AnalyticsFounded Pequity Darren HauStaff Manager, Fleet Optimization & Charging OpsFounded Halo Materials Tom GellatlyEngineering Manager: Mapping + Data LabelingFounded Centaur Vignan VelivelaSoftware EngineerFounded AtoB Peter GaoEngineerFounded Aquarium Learning Quinn JohnsonSenior Software EngineerFounded Aquarium Learning Garrison BellackSenior Robotics EngineerFounded DreamWorld Reza AzizianSenior Design Thermal EngineerFounded Ferveret Ian RustFounding EngineerFounded Revoy Emmanuel TurlayStaff Software EngineerFounded Airtrain AI Justin LederSenior Manager, Data & AnalyticsFounded Turntable Joey SkavroneckMBA Intern, DeploymentsFounded Craftwork Dmitry IlyevskySr Software EngineerFounded Apoxy Effy ZhangStaff Product DesignerFounded Baserun Nicholas CharriereSoftware EngineerFounded Mocha Ben ReinhartEngineer and Team LeadFounded Mocha Ellen HuiSenior Site Reliability EngineerFounded Thorntale Richard HeSenior Software Engineer - ML PlatformFounded Openmart Daniel Bulhosa SolorzanoSenior ML Researcher IIFounded Variant Kevin ChuDirector of Autonomous Vehicle EngineeringFounded Hestus, Inc.Alan WellsSenior Manager, Product Management - AV BehaviorFounded Rocketable Nick AmoreBusiness OperationsFounded IronLedger.ai Satya Vasanth TumatiSenior Software Engineer II - AI FoundationsFounded Socratix AI Sebastian FischerSenior Systems Engineer IIFounded Wardstone Kunal RoySenior Software EngineerFounded Dome Flora Ponjou TasseApplied Scientist (ML)Founded Selerio Jeffrey LiSoftware EngineerFounded Paraform Adrian MacneilDirector, Infrastructure EngineeringFounded Foxglove Mason SwoffordSoftware Engineering InternFounded Tenzo Ming JiangSenior Staff Technical Product Manager, Data InfrastructureFounded CipherOwl Gabe SibleyStaff Software EngineerFounded Verdant Robotics Jacob RosenbergPrincipal Software EngineerFounded LendUp Cecilia ZinitiDirector & Lead Counsel, Product, Regulatory & IP LegalFounded Gc David RorexSenior Software Engineer, Embedded SystemsFounded MadeSolid Amjad AfanahProduct Management LeaderFounded Hounddog Avinash NairSenior Software EngineerFounded Beacon AI Utsav ShahSenior Data Scientist II, AIFounded Kaaj Bingrui YangHead of AV Hardware SystemsFounded Pebble Kaled AlhanafiGeneral ManagerFounded Basata Ai

Frequently asked questions

What is the Cruise mafia?: The Cruise mafia is the network of 53 people who came through Cruise and went on to found or lead other companies, including Vistashares, Qualcomm, The Bot Company, Exec, Everyme.
Who is in the Cruise mafia?: Notable members include Jon McNeill (Vistashares), Patrick Eggen (Qualcomm), Kyle Vogt (The Bot Company), Daniel Kan (Exec), Oliver Cameron (Everyme), Matthew Deiters (Assembly Made), Sohrab Haghighat (Hestus, Inc.), Tom Bachant (Dashride), among 53 tracked members.
What companies did Cruise alumni found?: Companies founded by Cruise alumni include Vistashares, Qualcomm, The Bot Company, Exec, Everyme, Assembly Made, Hestus, Inc., Dashride, Gather, Wrappup.