Bongiorno: Humane hired pre-2023 employees without revealing what they were building
Bethany Bongiorno · AI that can be your second brain with Bethany Bongiorno and Imran Chaudhri of Humane · Mar 14, 2024 · at 19:28
Bethany Bongiorno, co-founder of Humane, describes the company's extreme stealth-mode hiring practices prior to the public unveiling of the Humane AI Pin.
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“Up until the fall of last year, every single person that joined Humane didn't know what they were joining to build. We didn't even tell candidates what it was”
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