The Founding Moment

Vivek explains HackerRank’s new founding moment: help companies hire AI-fluent people for the labor economy, then connect experts who can make AI better in the token economy.

HackerRank co-founder and CEO Vivek lays out the company’s reinvention around two economies. In the labor economy, Chakra and Interview help companies evaluate judgment, critical thinking, and AI fluency in realistic work. In the token economy, Astra connects experts from HackerRank’s developer network with AI labs to curate data, critique outputs, and improve models, all while keeping humans at the center.