Jacob Zietek
I made the difficult decision to leave Persona. Honestly, it looks a bit dumb on the surface. We raised a huge round, we hired a great team, and we’re hitting some really exciting milestones internally, so why?
Leaving Persona AI ✌️ October 16, 2025 I made the difficult decision to leave Persona. Honestly, it looks a bit dumb on the surface. We raised a huge round, we hired a great team, and we’re hitting some really exciting milestones internally, so why? I want to make great contributions to embodied AI. I'm not sure if that will manifest more as an IC or as leadership over my lifetime ( You and Your Research ), but my north star is aligned to supporting the intelligence portion of robotics. Persona is doing great work in robot learning w.r.t. humanoids, but I want to focus on different things. Sta
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