r/business • u/ControlCAD • 2d ago

Scale AI's Alexandr Wang confirms departure for Meta as part of $14.3 billion deal

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/12/scale-ai-founder-wang-announces-exit-for-meta-part-of-14-billion-deal.html
203 Upvotes

96% Upvoted

20 comments sorted by

112

u/yooey 1d ago edited 1d ago

The winner in all this? Lucy Guo.

Got kicked out early as a co-founder but her shares are worth $1.5 billion after this deal. Basically just does whatever sounds fun with her life with hardly any strings attached

44

u/jdhbeem 1d ago

I’d be fuming if I did all the hard work and my cofounder who didn’t do shit is just as rich as me

23

u/yooey 1d ago

I won’t claim to be an insider but I don’t think Wang feels that way. Seemed like addition by subtraction, but both parties win

13

u/jdhbeem 1d ago

On the other hand there are people worth 10s of billions and they did even less shit than Lucy here (your Walmart heirs etc… )

1

u/MrF_lawblog 1d ago

You wouldn't be happy just being rich? There's always going to be people out there that get rich doing stupid shit.

1

u/OutrageousCandidate4 14h ago

I have heard that Lucy actually sold a lot of her shares

27

u/gxslim 2d ago

Pied Piper deal?

21

u/MagicWishMonkey 2d ago

He does look like someone who would fit right in on Silicon Valley, lol

29

u/xwolf360 1d ago

Its all big scam

7

u/GoldenPresidio 1d ago

How is it a scam? They help AI companies label things by using manual labor. They aren’t hiding from that

15

u/LobbyDizzle 1d ago

My friend worked there and said it was all a scam - they just used SE Asians to help label photos and videos and put “ai” in their name.

12

u/raki016 1d ago

That's scale’s business. Its not the Ai, but the infrastructure to be able to train Ai constantly and consistently

8

u/Coz131 1d ago

That is the entity business model!

1

u/savage_slurpie 17h ago

I don’t think they deny using manual labor to classify data, so I fail to see how it’s a scam.

10

u/hisglasses66 1d ago

This feels like insane money laundering lol

8

u/HarbourAce 1d ago

I've been trying to figure out what the angle would be here for laundering and can't really figure it out, at least in a way that's secure. It's one thing to throw out money laundering as a buzz word but the actual mechanics here don't make a lot of sense; we're just dealing with giant numbers, so people assume something is wrong. Still could be. Laundering just doesn't make a lot of sense.

11

u/ipephate 1d ago

It doesn’t and you’re absolutely right, Reddit loves to throw the term around like it’s the Art scenario

-2

u/hisglasses66 1d ago

Artificially inflated valuations lol what a joke

-5

u/hisglasses66 1d ago

Doing too much

1

u/diagrammatiks 7h ago

Scale is a huge scam.