As the AI race hot up in 2025, the corporate leadership in Google, Microsoft, Meta and other tech companies changed the way companies work. Driven by the high stakes of the AI race, the world’s most powerful tech leaders shifted into what Silicon Valley calls “Founder Mode”. From personally walking factory lines to writing code, these five CEOs are personally architecting their companies’ future success. For example Sergey Brin , the Google co-founder Sergey Brin returned “full-time” to spearhead Google’s AI offensive after ‘Code Red’ situation at the company. Brin’s is said to have spearheaded Antigravity, the company’s newly-unveiled agent-first coding platform. Interestingly, Brin also featured prominently in the launch video alongside the team from Windsurf (acquired for $2.4 billion). Brin is reportedly in the office “pretty much every day,” working on Gemini model training. How important AI is to everyone so that we cannot afford to miss out ?
