Zelcastalumni map

People who leave TED Conferences most often go to a long tail of companies. The median tenure is 8m

Not TED Conferences's headcount: these are the engineers in the Zelcast network and the profiles run through the Eng Scorer. 21 people on a map of 67,181, No. 1,258 on it by people. Updated September 30, 2026.

People on the map
21Under 0.1% of everyone on the map
There now
00% of the people here
Moved on
21100% of the people here
Median tenure
8mmiddle half 3m to 1y 7m

Put TED Conferences side by side with another employer.

Came from, went to

Ribbon width is the number of people who made the move.

Not enough recorded moves to draw a river for TED Conferences yet.

After TED Conferences

  • 19%Joined a big company3
  • 81%Elsewhere

Shares of those who moved on, by their next stop.

How long people stay

55%<1y
35%1-2y
5%2-4y
5%4-7y
0%7y+
8m median tenuremiddle half 3m to 1y 7m

20 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

2013 to 2026: 21 joined, 21 left.

Caliber

Not enough scored profiles here yet (7).

Titles held here

  1. Tedx Speaker5
  2. Speaker3

2 most common titles, by people who held them.

First job on the record for 57% of people here.

Where they studied

  1. Stanford19.1%
  2. UC Berkeley14.3%

The 2 most listed schools among the 21 people here with a school on file.

4 of the 21 people here with a school on file list Stanford and 3 list UC Berkeley. 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

52% of the people who have worked at TED Conferences and list a location live in the San Francisco Bay Area today, against 41% of everyone on the map.

TED Conferences
Everyone on the map
  • 52%SF Bay Area11 · map 41%
  • 19%New York4 · map 18%
  • 14%Los Angeles3 · map 5%
  • 14%Somewhere else3

All 21 people who worked at TED Conferences 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 TED Conferences: a metro here isn't an office there. The lower strip is the same metros across the whole map.

Key facts

  • 21 people on the Zelcast alumni map have worked at TED Conferences: 0 are there now, 21 have moved on.
  • Median tenure at TED Conferences: 8m, middle half 3m to 1y 7m.
  • Of the people with a recorded next move after TED Conferences, fewer than 3 went to a founder title next, fewer than 3 joined a company of 200 or fewer, and 19% joined one of 10,000 or more.
  • Most common title held here: Tedx Speaker, then Speaker.
  • Top school: Stanford, listed by 4 of the 21 people here with one on file (19.1%). Then UC Berkeley (3).
  • 52% of the 21 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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