Vol. 7 · TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2026
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Alex Mashrabov Sold AI Factory for $166M. Higgsfield Hit $5.4B.

“In 2020, Snap paid $166 million for the AI startup Alex Mashrabov had co-founded — and then hired him to run its generative-AI team. In 2023 he left to start over alone. By August 2026 that second company was valued at $5.4 billion, on revenue that had grown 35-fold in a year, after Mashrabov made a single call: stop chasing viral consumer video and sell to the Fortune 500 instead.

By Remarkable Magazine — October 6, 2026 — 6 min read

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