Dave Wehner is leaving Meta to become chief financial officer of Fireworks, an artificial intelligence inference company founded in 2022 by former Meta engineers. He led Meta’s finance function from 2014 to 2022 before moving into its strategy role, where he remained until this month. At Fireworks, he will be responsible for scaling the company’s finances and operations as it serves open artificial intelligence models tailored to customers’ proprietary data. Fireworks says it processes more than 40 trillion tokens a day and counts Uber, Shopify and Doximity among its customers. According to the article, the company raised $1.505 billion in a Series D round in July 2026 at a post-money valuation of $17.5 billion and reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate by mid-2026.
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