Nancy Xu
Nancy Xu is vice president of AI and Agentforce at Salesforce, and she founded Moonhub, an AI hiring startup. Moonhub built AI agents that could autonomously source, vet, and engage potential job candidates. TIME named her one of its 100 Most Influential People in AI for 2023. She was a 2021 Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford, pursuing a PhD in computer science and an MBA. In June 2025 Moonhub announced that its team would join Salesforce.
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Timeline
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2021
A Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford
In 2021 she joins the Knight-Hennessy Scholars cohort at Stanford, pursuing a PhD in computer science and an MBA.
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2022–2025
Founding Moonhub
She founds Moonhub in 2022, a hiring startup whose AI agents could autonomously source, vet and engage potential job candidates.
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2023
A place on TIME's AI list
TIME names her one of its 100 Most Influential People in AI for 2023.
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June 2025
Moonhub's team moves to Salesforce
Moonhub announces in June 2025 that its team will join Salesforce. A Salesforce spokesperson tells TechCrunch that Moonhub has not been acquired by Salesforce's own definition of the term, and that only some of its team will join.
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Since 2025
Vice president of AI and Agentforce
In October 2025 she is vice president of AI and Agentforce at Salesforce, talking with theCUBE about who gets to shape AI inside the enterprise.
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