Highest-Paying, Sure. Growing?
Some are rocket ships. Some are treading water.
Jordan Mazer at a16z made a list of 36 of the highest-paying startups hiring right now. Save it, send it to someone who deserves a raise. Solid advice.
But how fast are they actually growing? We took a red pen to it. Let's go to the data.
Deep dive on any of them: Cohere, Perplexity, Character.AI, Cartesia, Calendly, Lightfield, Mutiny, Serval, Giga, Retell AI, Sphere, Axion, Siro, Help Scout, Orb, Flow Engineering, Baseten, Browserbase, Retool, Hex, Twenty, Axonius, Polymarket, Moment, Fomo, Patreon, Triumph.
Some are rocket ships. Baseten and Polymarket more than quadrupled. Serval nearly quadrupled. Cohere, Cartesia and Retell keep adding people every month.
Some are hiring just to stand still. Mutiny lost almost half its people. Retool, Axonius and Help Scout are smaller than a year ago. Calendly and Patreon are flat. The pay is great. The headcount isn't going anywhere.
And Perplexity's asterisk: the company is flat. Its campus ambassador army went from about 500 students to about 100.
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