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How to Build Your Own Data Center & Why Every Startup Should Do It
- ▶ 19:43 Harry Stebbings So I suggest you use Fireworks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:56 Harry Stebbings I think, you know, it's kind of like the inference market, where Fireworks will be a multi-hundred-brillion-dollar company,
ClickHouse CEO: AI Margins Need to Improve | Revenue Concentration Should be a Concern
- ▶ 3:08 Harry Stebbings We look at, you know, companies like Fireworks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:05 Harry Stebbings You know, we both know Linux fireworks.
Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
Inside Sequoia's Investment Committee | How the SpaceX & Citadel Deals Went Down | Julien Bek
- ▶ 1:01:54 unnamed speaker It feels so transient, and um, I feel a lot more certainty when I invest in fireworks, when I invest in McCaw, when I invest in ClickHouse. 4 times in the scene
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 0:36 Jerry Murdock Fireworks is making a lot more money than base 10.
- ▶ 9:05 Jerry Murdock Um, I, I can tell you if look at inference providers, I think fireworks was making a lot more money than base 10. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:59 Harry Stebbings You mentioned fireworks there.
- ▶ 15:06 Jerry Murdock Um, that may be true at the moment with pretty much frontier models, but I disagree with it because companies like fireworks and others are helping companies to customize. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:36 Jerry Murdock Well, look, if, if you look at fireworks, I'm lucky I invest in fireworks versus base tan or,
- ▶ 24:21 Harry Stebbings I have to ask you, you mentioned fireworks multiple times.
- ▶ 33:28 Harry Stebbings If we look at fireworks, you know, it's three and a half years to a billion. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:03 Jerry Murdock I mean, Elon, Jensen, Zuckerberg, they all qualify for that definition, but you look at, um, you look at these other companies that you say, wow, fireworks looks to be like that.
Stripe's $8B OpenRouter Bet | Anthropic's First Profit & The Math Behind Reaching $600B in Revenue?
- ▶ 21:29 Jason Lemkin You don't need to get on fireworks.
Uber President on Travis, China & Self-Driving | Why Autonomy Is Existential | How to Beat DoorDash
- ▶ 41:36 Harry Stebbings Do you work with providers like Fireworks to enable efficient routing?
OpenRouter CEO: Why Chinese Open Models Are Beating the US | Why Enterprises Fear OpenAI & Anthropic
- ▶ 4:43 Alex Atallah Like they're using the inference providers like fireworks and together and,
- ▶ 7:56 Harry Stebbings I had Lynn on the show from Fireworks, and she said that, you know, I said about Gavin Baker, and a token is a token, is what he said.
- ▶ 10:24 Harry Stebbings I understood that Firewise is your favorite.
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 1:05:31 Nikesh Arora This is not a problem that fireworks can solve for me. 2 times in the scene
Arena CEO: There Will be a $100BN US Open-Source Model & Data is a Trillion Dollar Market
- ▶ 6:48 Harry Stebbings We had Lynn on from fireworks and she was like, specialized intelligence will be the future.
- ▶ 9:18 Anastasios Angelopoulos I'm going to allow inference providers like a fireworks or together or whatever to deploy, um, this model.
- ▶ 26:39 Harry Stebbings Fireworks have got their own.
- ▶ 53:28 Harry Stebbings We're seeing a load of businesses like your fireworks of the world, where they're at the 30% style, mid thirties margin base.
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 29:13 Jason Lemkin Well, for a while, we were experimenting with K-three on Moonshot, and then it got cheaper, so we moved to fireworks. 2 times in the scene
Will Open-Source Threaten Anthropic's Business & Do Margins Matter in a World of AI | Matt Murphy
- ▶ 28:53 Harry Stebbings I just had Lynn from fireworks on the show today.
- ▶ 40:11 Harry Stebbings You've got Anthropic, you've got Lovable, you've got Ligora, you've got Open Router, you've got Fireworks, you've got, the list goes on and on and on of great companies.
Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs
- ▶ 6:13 Harry Stebbings When we think about it could be better, I had Lynn Quao, the founder of Fireworks on the show the other day, and she was like, exactly that is why we'll have specialized models for every single company. 2 times in the scene
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 14:17 Rory O'Driscoll The question is, if the model is being run in a trusted U.S. inference company, Base Tan, Fireworks, some of those guys, right?
- ▶ 30:01 Harry Stebbings I just interviewed the founder of fireworks who announced their 17 valuation. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:27 Harry Stebbings Which is fireworks. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:16 Jason Lemkin Um, and, um, so I, I do think whether, whether that always benefits fireworks or not, it doesn't matter as long as they pick up the, some of the bigger, the bigger end, right?
- ▶ 1:08:38 Harry Stebbings Would you rather be doing a Series A, two million in revenue at three hundred million price, which is the going rate for a hot AI company at Series A, especially in the Valley, or would you rather stick money into fireworks, which says…
The Open-Source AI Reality | How Token Costs Will Fall 10X & Usage Will Explode 100X | Lin Qiao
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings And in the hot seat today, a founder who I wrote a ten million dollar check for after just a 15 minute meeting, Lin Kuo, founder at Fireworks.
- ▶ 3:47 Harry Stebbings So with Fireworks, you saw 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:12 Lin Qiao So within, uh, within Fireworks, obviously, with Dogfoot, our own product, we use OpenModel to, um, to drive our recruiting process, candidate sourcing, um, and the feedback collection. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:22 Lin Qiao Especially, Fireworks, we, we are special, specialized intelligence platform. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:47 Lin Qiao But we don't view ourselves as an inference provider. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:45 Harry Stebbings I think recently you announced that you were at eight hundred million in ARR, um, incredible feat and scaled so fast. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:37 Lin Qiao Um, in this wave, especially in fireworks, is whether, um, they are really built for taking stream ownership.
- ▶ 1:23:30 Harry Stebbings What did you wait on in the fireworks journey that you wish you hadn't waited on?
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 26:21 Harry Stebbings Or do you think, candidly, your inference providers like Fireworks or Base 10 eat into that?
DeepSeek Raises at $50B | The Rise of Open Source vs OpenAI & Anthropic | OpenAI Builds Own Chip · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:09 unnamed speaker It's fueling these crazy base 10 and fireworks and all this.
Anthropic's Fable Banned by US Government | Wix & Adobe Hit All-Time Lows | Mistral Raising at $20BN · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:12 Everett Randle And so the really, really good thing for, I think, all the frontier labs and just the inference market in general, companies like ours, like Fireworks that run inference platforms for, for their enterprise customers on open models, all of…
- ▶ 46:54 Everett Randle You know, the Sierras and Fireworks and Lagoras and Mercores and Langchains and Haygens of the world in that fund, um, and, and many others as well, and so the, the funds look, the funds obviously, um, look, look awesome, but, um, but no,…
Perplexity CEO: Micron Will Be More Valuable Than Meta & How Export Controls Helped Not Hurt China · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 43:10 Aravind Srinivas That's a business model of certain other companies like Fireworks and, you know, um, Base 10 and all that, but you could imagine NeoCloud just going for that business.
Insights from Coatue's Growth Investor Lucas Swisher · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:01:28 Harry Stebbings But seriously, you look at like your fireworks, your Legora, your madness.
Predictions for 2026: Top Buy & Biggest Short | Why Salesforce Could Win & NVIDIA’s Challenges · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 14:54 Harry Stebbings Manus, Sierra, Firework, Legora, Cerebris, Langchain.
Why VC Today is Worse than 2021 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:04 Harry Stebbings I also know Benchmark are extremely generous in terms of like backdated carry and being brought into this carry pool for this fund with fireworks and with McCore and with Legora and with Manus and with many others.
Why Apple Needs a Management Overhaul & Why Google is Catching Up with Hyperscalers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 5:29 Harry Stebbings Fireworks a hundred and forty million in ARR.
Andrew Feldman, Cerebras Co-Founder and CEO: The AI Chip Wars & The Plan to Break Nvidia's Dominance · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 42:17 Andrew Feldman Well, you can move from OpenAI on an NVIDIA GPU to Cerebrus to Fireworks Service on something else to Together to perplexity with 10 keystrokes.
Eric Vishria: Where is the Value in AI - Chips, Models or Apps? | E1206 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:28 Eric Vishria Um, we have, uh, companies like Fireworks, which are an inference service and others kind of of that infrastructure software layer.
- ▶ 37:35 Eric Vishria I think about Lynn's fireworks.