Clem Delangue is a serial entrepreneur and AI product leader with nine years of experience building and scaling machine learning companies, most notably as co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face. He helped pioneer mobile computer vision at Moodstocks, which was acquired by Google, and has a track record of turning research-grade AI into widely adopted developer tools and communities. At Hugging Face he’s led fundraising and growth efforts that secured $160M from top-tier investors while championing open-source-first product development. Earlier roles include founding education and SaaS startups and building growth teams that drove hundreds of thousands of users and significant US revenue for Mention. Based in New York, he blends product, marketing and technical instincts—often committing code himself—to democratize accessible, production-ready ML. Beyond headlines, Clem’s uncommon strength is aligning developer communities with sustainable business models that scale.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Jean Douai
PGP, Management, PGP, Management at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore
University College Dublin
Charles III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Master in management, Management, Master in management, Management at ESCP Europe
Non-degree program, Introduction to computer science | Programming methodology, Non-degree program, Introduction to computer science | Programming methodology at Stanford University
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