Plaid
Scaling fastPlaid scaled rapidly over 90 days with 133 joins against just 17 departures, led by engineering (39 hires) and sales (34). The company brought in senior leadership including a Chief Information Security Officer and heads of Consumer Product, Fraud, and Business Recruiting, drawing talent from Square, AWS, Asana, and Atlassian. Notable exits include three VP-level roles in GTM and external affairs, with four departures to Cursor (including Head of GTM Strategic Finance and Head of Corporate Affairs), signaling pull from the AI coding tool startup.
- +7% of staff
- Net headcount · 90d
- +116
- mostly Engineering
- New hires · 90d
- 133
- vs 133 hires
- Departures · 90d
- 17
- quiet
- Leadership moves · 90d
- 0
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Hiring paceAccelerating
New hires per month, last 12 months. 340 total hires.
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Notable moves
Hires, exits and promotions over the last 90 days — by role and function.
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36 people joined Engineering Aggregate
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23 people joined Aggregate
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10 people joined Aggregate
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6 people joined Aggregate
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4 people joined Aggregate
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4 people joined Aggregate
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Talent flow
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