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Talks about leadership transition, Plaid and strategic role
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William Hockey
Founder of Plaid
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
William Hockey is the CEO at Column, a notable position he holds after co-founding Plaid and serving as a Board Director at Scale AI. His career highlights include founding successful companies, making impactful investments in various sectors, and being involved in the growth of prominent startups like Deel and MetaMap.
Work Experience
CEO and founder
2020 - Current
Column is a developer infrastructure company that enables developers and builders to create new financial products.
Board Director
2021
Scale AI provides a data-oriented platform that assists in the development of AI applications.
Raised $2,602,620,000.00 from WCM Investment Management, Meta, Wellington Management, Y Combinator, Intel Capital, DFJ Growth, NVIDIA, Nat Friedman, Thrive Capital and Qualcomm Ventures.
Co-founder and Board Director
2012
Build things, wash a lot of dishes. Currently - Board 2012-2020 - President and CTO
Plaid provides companies with the tools and access needed for the development of a digitally-enabled financial system.
Raised $734,300,000.00 from Bedrock, American Express Ventures, J.P. Morgan Growth Equity Partners, New Enterprise Associates, Silver Lake, Kleiner Perkins, Thrive Capital, Raed Malek, Index Ventures and Spark Capital.
Associate
2011 - 2011
Got endorsed for Windows XP.
Engineering
2010 - 2010