X’s head of engineering is out

X’s head of engineering, Haofei Wang, has abruptly near the company, according to sources pinch knowledge of the matter.

Wang first joined Elon Musk’s X successful July 2023 and has been an integral portion of the company’s leadership, often serving arsenic a conduit betwixt Musk and the remainder of the company’s engineers. More recently, he was seen internally arsenic X’s defacto caput of engineering and product, particularly pinch Musk precocious focusing much of his clip connected xAI and DOGE. It’s unclear why Wang is departing now. Neither he nor a institution spokesperson responded to a petition for remark successful clip for publication.

X precocious added different engineering leadership: Mike Dalton and Uday Ruddaraju, some antecedently method leads astatine Robinhood, joined successful January. Their LinkedIn profiles show that they besides activity astatine xAI, which has go increasingly intertwined pinch X complete the past year.

Thanks to the increasing floor plan of xAI and Musk’s newfound governmental influence, X’s business appears to beryllium turning around. The institution reportedly conscionable obtained a $44 cardinal valuation from investors — the aforesaid value Musk paid for Twitter successful 2022. While Musk remains an avid poster connected X, his attraction and activity astatine X has go progressively divided since he started campaigning for President Donald Trump past summer.

When Musk first purchased Twitter, he vowed to toggle shape it into an “everything app” akin to China’s WeChat. The Verge previously reported an soul X meeting wherever Musk said that it “would rustle my mind” if the institution couldn’t grip “someone’s full financial life” by the extremity of 2024. Those plans haven’t travel to fruition, though my sources opportunity that activity is still underway to motorboat the X Money payments level (it’s slated to come “later this year”).