Startups Decoded

Ep#82: AI Was Supposed to Kill the Chief of Staff. It Made Them Indispensable. With Clara Ma.

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Clara Ma was chief of staff to the CEO of Hugging Face back when it was a Series A company, years before most founders could spell LLM.

She watched the role from the sharpest seat in the building, then built Ask a Chief of Staff, a 500-person community that has helped match CEOs with their right hand ever since.

AI was supposed to make executive support obsolete. Instead, chief of staff…