Dave Wehner 在 Meta 工作了 14 年，其中超过 8 年担任首席财务官。周五，他宣布将离开首席战略官职务，转任 AI 推理初创公司 Fireworks 的首席财务官。
Dave Wehner has spent 14 years at Meta, more than eight of them as chief financial officer. On Friday, he announced that he is leaving his role as chief strategy officer to become CFO of Fireworks, an AI inference start-up.
《The Information》在周五晚间首次报道了此事。Wehner 于 2012 年加入 Facebook，担任企业财务与业务规划副总裁。2014 年升任 CFO，2022 年转任战略职务。
The Information first reported the move on Friday evening. Wehner joined Facebook in 2012 as vice president of corporate finance and business planning. He became CFO in 2014 and moved to the strategy role in 2022.
“Wehner 在帖子中写道，‘Fireworks 的使命正契合当下的需求’，并感谢 Mark Zuckerberg，称对 Meta 的未来‘极度乐观’。他表示早已认识 Fireworks 首席执行官林巧，想加入一家创始人主导的成长型公司。
“Fireworks has the right mission for the moment,” Wehner wrote on In the post, he thanked Mark Zuckerberg and said he was “incredibly optimistic” about Meta’s future. He said he had known Fireworks chief executive Lin Qiao for a long time and wanted to join a founder-led growth company.
“我认为 AI 是我一生中最具影响力的技术变革。我很兴奋能够投身其中，帮助打造位于核心的业务，”他写道。
“I see AI as the most consequential technology shift of my lifetime. I’m excited to get to work and help build a business at the center of it,” he wrote.
林巧在接受 CNBC 采访时称，Wehner 将负责公司财务和运营的规模化。她还于周五在 LinkedIn 上发布了关于此任命的帖子。
Lin told CNBC that Wehner will scale the company’s finances and operations. She also wrote about the hire on LinkedIn on Friday.
“Dave 告诉我，他想回到一家规模更小的公司，再次为产生巨大影响而努力，”林写道。
“Dave told me he wanted to get back to a smaller company where he could build toward a big impact again,” Lin wrote.
Meta 首席运营官 Javier Olivan 也向 CNBC 表示声明。
Meta chief operating officer Javier Olivan also gave CNBC a statement.
“Dave 在 14 年里帮助 Meta 应对了巨大的增长和复杂性，并在我们一些最艰难的公司层面决策中带来了严谨的思考，”Olivan 说。Fireworks 及其下一轮融资前 Meta 与 Google 员工于 2022 年创立了 Fireworks。其平台让开发者为企业定制并运行开放式 AI 模型。该公司在 7 月完成了 15亿美元的融资，估值达 175亿美元，融资轮由 Atreides Management、Index Ventures 和 TCV 主导。Nvidia 和 Sequoia Capital 亦为其投资者。
“Dave helped guide Meta through tremendous growth and complexity over 14 years, and brought disciplined thinking to some of our hardest company-level decisions,” Olivan said. Fireworks and its next round Former Meta and Google employees founded Fireworks in 2022. Its platform lets developers customise and run open AI models for their businesses. It raised $1.5bn in July at a $17.5bn valuation, in a round led by Atreides Management, Index Ventures and TCV. Nvidia and Sequoia Capital are also backers.
两家媒体报道了其下一轮融资情况。《商业内幕》10月报道称，该公司正处于早期谈判阶段，拟按300亿至400亿美元估值融资。《The Information》现援引知情人士消息报道，Fireworks将于下周启动新一轮融资，目标估值至少为300亿美元。TNW未能独立核实上述两则报道。
Two outlets have reported on its next round. Business Insider reported in October that it was in early talks to raise at a valuation of $30bn to $40bn. The Information now reports that Fireworks will start a new round next week, citing people familiar with the matter. It is targeting a valuation of at least $30bn, The Information reported. TNW has not independently verified either report.
近几周，其他推理类初创公司也完成了大额融资，包括估值160亿美元的Fal以及Baseten计划中的融资轮次。
Other inference start-ups have also raised big rounds in recent weeks, including Fal at $16bn and Baseten’s planned round.
据《The Information》报道，在加入Facebook（现Meta）之前，Wehner曾担任Zynga首席财务官及投资银行Allen & Co.董事总经理。他还担任Aurora Innovation董事会成员，该公司专注于卡车自动驾驶技术研发。
From Zynga to Meta Before Facebook, Wehner was CFO of Zynga and a managing director at the investment bank Allen & Co., The Information reported. He also sits on the board of Aurora Innovation, which makes self-driving technology for trucks.