Building in AI & open-source, from the founders of Langchain, Chroma, Unstructured.io
On this special panel discussion of Thursday Nights in AI, we chat with three open-source leaders building in AI: Harrison Chase of LangChain, Brian S. Raymond of Unstructured.io, and Anton Troynikov of Chroma. Special thanks to Volley for hosting us in their amazing office space!
Topics covered include each company's north star metric, the importance of growth versus revenue when building a company around an open-source project, working weekends, the best advice they've ever gotten, the worst advice they've ever gotten, whether we need government regulation in AI, how similar founder life is to life on Silicon Valley the TV show, the future of open-source, each founder's role models, and more.
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About Outset Capital: Outset Capital is led by Ali Rohde, Kanjun Qiu, and Josh Albrecht — AI practitioners investing in AI, deeptech, and the future of work. We back companies at the outset and love to be the first check in.
About Imbue: Imbue is an AI research company aiming to rekindle the dream of the personal computer—by creating practical AI agents that can accomplish larger goals and safely work for us in the real world. They are hiring! https://imbue.com/careers
About WndrCo: Founded in 2016 by Sujay Jaswa, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and ChenLi Wang, WndrCo builds & invests in companies whose products are revolutionizing how people live and work. WndrCo's investments include 1Password, Aura, Databricks, Figma, Material Security, and Pilot.
00:00 - Introduction
01:37 - Use Cases
07:00 - Open-source and for-profit companies
08:30 - Revenue
13:05 - The dancing baby gif
15:11 - KPIs - your north star
17:30 - technical eco-system
24:00 - AI companies to watch
24:50 - Pilot
25:17 - Sleep
26:12 - Weekend work?
27:00 - Open-source models to watch
27:27 - editors
27:35 - Open-AI's future
31:30 - founders advice
33:55 - Github
36:20 - Audience Q&A
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Ali Rohde: https://x.com/RohdeAli
Anton Troynikov: https://x.com/atroyn
Brian Raymond: https://x.com/_Brian_Raymond
Harrison Chase: https://x.com/hwchase17
Outset Capital: https://x.com/outsetcap
Imbue: https://x.com/imbue_ai
Wndrco: https://x.com/WndrCoLLC