Inside HR at the world's best companies
Lovable's revenue went from $200 million to $500 million in seven months. Cursor (now SpaceXAI) blew past $2 billion before it was acquired last month, and Anthropic's revenue has been doubling roughly every six weeks.
When you see numbers like this, you have to wonder: what are these companies doing differently to win right now, and how does HR play a part in it?
We pulled more than 5,000 data points on 100 leading tech companies to find the similarities, the differences, and the new blueprints and playbooks taking these companies into the future.
HR is AI's next frontier. Product and engineering got the AI transformation first, and top CEOs are already investing in AI for HR.
Revenue per employee, not headcount, is becoming the real signal of company success. Lean teams, not the 2016-era VC playbook of hiring at scale, are what an admired company looks like now.
Transparency around recruiting and compensation is already the norm, and it's pushing companies toward more dynamic approaches to pay and performance.
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By the numbers
81%
of People and HR roles here already expect AI skill, spelled out in the posting or built into the team's work.
74%
of these companies disclose salary information up front, right in the job posting itself.
56%
of these companies put a VP-level or higher leader in charge of HR.
"The pattern is hard to miss: the companies pulling furthest ahead all gave HR a genuine seat in deciding how the business runs, not just how it operates. AI made the old split, HR managing people while real decisions happen elsewhere, impossible to sustain. The companies giving HR that seat now are the ones the industry will study five years from now."
