After Lightspeed
- 29%Joined a startup4
- 29%Joined a big company4
- 43%Elsewhere
Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.
People who leave Lightspeed most often go to a long tail of companies. Of them, 29% go somewhere small
Not Lightspeed's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 20 people on a map of 67,181, No. 1,307 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.
- People on the map
- 20Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
- There now
- 315% of the people here
- Moved on
- 1785% 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.
Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for Lightspeed yet.
How long people stay
38%<1y
13%1-2y
25%2-4y
13%4-7y
13%7y+
8 stays with both a start and an end on the record.
Who comes and goes, by year
<3<312
<3<313
<3<314
<3<315
<3<316
<3<317
4<318
0019
<3<320
0021
<3<322
0023
0<324
0025
<3<326
joined left2026 is a partial year
2012 to 2026: 19 joined, 16 left.
Caliber
Not enough scored profiles here yet (10).
Titles held here
- Summer Fellow8
1 most common titles, by people who held them.
First job on the record for 25% of people here.
Where they studied
- Stanford80.0%
- Harvard15.0%
The 2 most listed schools among the 20 people here with a school on file.
16 of the 20 people here with a school on file list Stanford and 3 list Harvard. A person can list more than one, so these overlap.
Public work
Not enough of the record here has been checked.This share needs 30 people whose profile was checked for public accounts, and there are fewer here.
Where they are now
75% of the people who have worked at Lightspeed and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.
Lightspeed
Everyone on the map
- 75%SF Bay Area15 · map 41%
- 15%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
All 20 people who worked at Lightspeed 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 Lightspeed: 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 Lightspeed, at any point in a career.
Key facts
- 20 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at Lightspeed: 3 are there now, 17 have moved on.
- Of the people with a recorded next move after Lightspeed, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, 29% joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 29% joined one of 10,000 or more.
- Most common title held here: Summer Fellow.
- Top school: Stanford, listed by 16 of the 20 people here with one on file (80.0%). Then Harvard (3).
- 75% of the 20 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.
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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