After 8VC
- 37%Joined a startup11
- 13%Joined a big company4
- 50%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave 8VC most often go to Palantir. Of them, 37% go somewhere small
Not 8VC's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 37 people on a map of 67,181, No. 656 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 370.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 514% of the people here
- Moved on
- 3286% of the people here
- Median tenure
- –fewer than 20 stays here have both a start and an end on the record, too few for a median
Came from, went to
Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move. Most leave for Palantir (13% of recorded departures).
31 recorded arrivals from 28 companies, none more than 2 from any one of them
0 of 31 recorded arrivals shown, 31 more from 28 other companies4 of 30 recorded departures shown, 26 more to 23 other companies
How long people stay
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4 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
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joined left2026 is a partial year
2018 to 2026: 37 joined, 32 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (24).
Titles held here
- Engineering Fellow16
- Fellow13
- 8vc Fellow3
3 most common titles, by people who held them.
Where they studied
- UC Berkeley18.9%
- Columbia10.8%
- Cornell10.8%
- USC8.1%
The 4 most listed schools among the 37 people here with a school on file.
7 of the 37 people here with a school on file list UC Berkeley, 4 list Columbia and 4 list Cornell. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
one square is one in a hundred
38%have a public GitHub account on their profile
14 of the 37 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts. An account the check missed reads the same as no account, so this is a floor.
31% is the median across the 857 companies that can show this figure.
Where they are now
57% of the people who have worked at 8VC and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
8VC
Everyone on the map
- 57%SF Bay Area21 · map 41%
- 30%New York11 · map 18%
- 14%Somewhere else5
All 37 people who worked at 8VC list a location, and every share here is over them.
Where they live now, from the profile as it reads today, not where they sat while working at 8VC: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.
On the same resumes
Companies that show up most often alongside 8VC, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 37 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at 8VC: 5 are there now, 32 have moved on.
- Most leave for Palantir: 4 people, 13% of recorded departures.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after 8VC, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 37% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 13% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Engineering Fellow, then Fellow.
- Top school: UC Berkeley, listed by 7 of the 37 people here with one on file (18.9%). Then Columbia (4).
- 57% of the 37 people here who list a location live in SF Bay Area today, against 41% across the map. Where they live now, not the office they sat in while they worked here.
- 38% of the 37 people here whose profile was checked for public accounts have a public GitHub.
About this data: built from 352,028 jobs across 67,181 engineers in the Zelcast network and Eng Scorer reads, updated September 30, 2026. A move counts when the next role starts within 24 months of leaving. Companies under 20 people on the map aren't shown, and destinations under 3 people fold into the totals. Caliber is the Eng Scorer score.
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