The editor of Downcodes learned that Gabor Cselle, the CEO and co-founder of former Twitter challenger Pebble, has joined OpenAI to participate in a mysterious project. The news was announced by Cselle himself on his X (former Twitter) account, and he said that more details would be shared in due course. Cselle is an experienced entrepreneur who has founded multiple companies and been acquired by Google and Twitter. His rich career experience, from a mobile email startup to a native advertising company to the social platform Pebble, has demonstrated his keen business sense and grasp of technology trends. Joining OpenAI this time will undoubtedly inject new vitality into its exploration in the field of artificial intelligence.
Cselle is an experienced entrepreneur whose first company, reMail, a Y Combinator-based mobile email startup, was acquired by Google. Subsequently, the native advertising startup Namo Media he founded was acquired by Twitter, which was renamed X after the acquisition by Elon Musk.
Before joining OpenAI, Cselle served as a group product manager at Twitter, responsible for the homepage timeline and user experience. He left Twitter in 2016 and subsequently served as the director of the Area120 incubator spin-off project at Google. In 2022, he collaborated with former Discord engineering director Michael Greer to develop Pebble (originally named T2). This social platform focused on safety and moderation. Although it established a small community with high participation, it ultimately failed to achieve sustainability. Continuing to grow, Pebble shut down last October and came back online with a Mastodon instance in November.
At the same time, OpenAI’s competitor Anthropic also welcomed new employees. Alex Rodrigues, the founder of self-driving truck company Embark, took the company to market through a SPAC merger in 2021, then sold it to Applied Intuition at a low price in 2023. He recently announced that he will join Anthropic as an AI security researcher.
The addition of Cselle and the new members of Anthropic indicate the fierce competition for talents in the field of artificial intelligence, and also mark the pace of continued development and innovation in the industry. In the future, we will continue to pay attention to Cselle’s trends in OpenAI, as well as the flow of more talents and technological breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence.