Cris Valenzuela

“I think being a, an outsider is both a blessing and a curse in the sense that it allows you to really reason from first principles. You discover everything and ask yourself why a lot. At the same time, you take longer than other people because you're just expe…”

“What I did before trying anything was I built from the ground up a neural network every single layer, every single function, activation function in between I curate the dataset, I train the model, and I built everything that I, Could get me a sense of how the …”

“The role in the investor is not to build a company. It's to trust that you will build a company and that you will build a generational product, and so I think they help sometimes. They might help you with intros and with other things, but it's not gonna make a…”

“There's so many assumptions that you might think about how these models actually work, But the moment you put them out, most of those assumptions are going to be changed”

“At some point we thought, oh, we need, like, OKRs and systems because some, an investor told me once that that's the way companies do it. We tried and I was like, this is no. Why? This is the worst thing you can do right now. It's like, you don't need this.”

“These days it's on a weekly cadence.”

“A lot of the mistakes I've done in the past on hiring is that we focus too much on credentials or past experiences or people who came from all these lofty universities or companies and not on the folks who were hungry and who just wanted to do things.”

“I think models are not a mode. Models eventually don't matter. What matters most is the people building those models, and how fast can you change and learn from those models?”

“It doesn't get easier. You get more used to the pain.”

“I don't think there's going to be a single model to rule them all.”

“And at the same time, we have more proprietary models as well, then we might never open source.”

“I had an investor that gave us a term sheet and we have them describe what Runway was, and we're like, that's not what we're doing. Just, I love your term sheet, beautiful valuation, everything else, but I don't wanna, that's not gonna work. I don't think we'r…”