IT Home On October 12, Alexandr Wang, founder of Scale AI and current Chief AI Officer at Meta, discussed his advice for first-time entrepreneurs during David Senra’s podcast episode on October 11 local time: When starting the first company, founders should take charge of all tasks personally and master every detail, before gradually learning to delegate.
He believes that the founder needs to form clear judgments on every detail of the business and personally oversee the execution process. The development of Scale AI adopted this approach, and the founder’s direct control over various tasks is one of the key factors behind the company’s success. However, this management style also comes with costs: all decisions must go through him, which gradually becomes a bottleneck in business progress.
After joining Meta, he adopted a different management approach. It is reported that the Meta Superintelligence Lab needs to complete a large amount of work in a very short time, and he is neither an AI researcher nor a product designer, so he cannot personally take on all the key tasks required by the lab.
Therefore, he shifted his focus to talent recruitment, hoping to recruit top professionals from various fields and create a working environment where they can utilize their expertise. Instead of personally deciding the details of each task, he places more emphasis on forming an excellent team, allowing professionals to participate in product development and research direction setting.
In June 2025, Wang Tao became Meta’s Chief AI Officer. He is in charge of the newly established Meta Superintelligence Lab. Meanwhile, Meta invested $14.3 billion into Scale AI (IT Home note: at current exchange rates, this is approximately 95.908 billion RMB) and obtained 49% non-voting shares from it.