# Nancy Xu

> Nancy Xu is VP of Agentforce at Salesforce, the architect behind one of enterprise AI's most-watched platforms. A Stanford CS PhD and MBA dual-degree holder, she founded Moonhub in 2022 — the world's first AI recruiter — raised $10M+, landed on TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI in 2023, and then joined Salesforce in 2025 when the company brought her entire team aboard. She also runs Xu Ventures, an early-stage AI-focused fund, and co-founded The Gradient, a respected AI research publication. A first-generation immigrant, Knight-Hennessy Scholar, and relentless builder, Xu is now leading Salesforce's charge to make autonomous AI agents accessible to every business user on the planet.

- **Role:** VP, Agentforce at Salesforce
- **Organizations:** Salesforce, Moonhub, Xu Ventures, The Gradient, Stanford University
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. Mathematics & Computer Science (with honors), Stanford University, Ph.D. Computer Science (AI), Stanford University / Stanford AI Lab, MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business
- **Known for:** Named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI (2023), Founded Moonhub — world's first AI recruiting agent, raising $10M+ including $4.4M seed round, Only person to hold dual CS PhD and MBA from Stanford simultaneously

## Career timeline

- **2015** — Enrolled at Stanford University; began studying Mathematics and Computer Science
- **2017** — Co-founded The Gradient, an AI research publication for practitioners and researchers, while at Stanford AI Lab
- **2017** — Internship at McKinsey & Company
- **2018** — Engineering internship at Facebook/Meta
- **2019** — Graduated Stanford with B.S. in Mathematics & CS with honors; youngest person reporting to CEO at Illumina; began dual CS PhD + MBA at Stanford
- **2021** — Selected as Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University (2021 cohort)
- **2022** — Completed dual Stanford CS PhD and MBA — the only person to hold both simultaneously at Stanford; founded Moonhub (world's first AI recruiter)
- **2022** — Founded Xu Ventures, an early-stage AI-focused VC fund
- **2023** — Named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI for Moonhub's AI recruiting platform; Moonhub reaches $1M+ revenue in year one with 100+ enterprise customers
- **2024** — Speaker at MIT Technology Review EmTech Digital 2024; continued scaling Moonhub and Xu Ventures
- **2025** — Salesforce acquires Moonhub team in talent acquisition; Nancy Xu joins Salesforce as VP of AI & Agentforce in June 2025
- **2025** — Presents at Dreamforce 2025 on Agentforce platform strategy and the future of AI agents in the enterprise
- **2026** — Agentforce ranks #1 Agentic AI Product in G2 Best Software Awards based on 500,000+ verified reviews

## Achievements

- Named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI (2023)
- Founded Moonhub — world's first AI recruiting agent, raising $10M+ including $4.4M seed round
- Only person to hold dual CS PhD and MBA from Stanford simultaneously
- Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford (2021 cohort)
- Co-founded The Gradient, a leading AI research publication
- Youngest person reporting to CEO at Illumina (biotech)
- Agentforce reached #1 Agentic AI Product in G2 Best Software Awards 2026 under her leadership
- President of Stanford Women in Computer Science
- President of Stanford ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
- Speaker at TED AI San Francisco, MIT Technology Review EmTech Digital, CNBC Events, DLD Conference, Dreamforce

## Latest updates

- **2026-04** — Agentforce ranks #1 Agentic AI Product in G2 Best Software Awards with 500,000+ verified reviews
- **2025-10** — Presented keynote sessions at Dreamforce 2025 on Agentforce platform architecture and enterprise AI strategy
- **2025-06** — Joined Salesforce as VP of AI & Agentforce following Salesforce's talent acquisition of Moonhub team
- **2024-04** — Spoke at MIT Technology Review EmTech Digital 2024 on the future of AI agents
- **2023-09** — Named to TIME's 100 Most Influential People in AI for 2023

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xnancy/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/Nancy_xuxi

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Last updated: 2026-04-30