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Opinion
Biewald: There Are More Funded LLM Tools Than Production LLM Apps
“Very, very few people have LLMs in production. Like there's probably more companies that have raised money as like LLM tools than companies that have LLMs in production, which is like insane. It's just like an insanely saturated tools market with very few peop…”
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Biewald: 95% Of ML Developers Are Using OpenAI's GPT Models
“Like I see like 95% of the people out there, you know, using GPT for these ML tasks.”
Insight
Biewald: Chasing Short-Term ARR Hurts A Startup's Next Quarter Growth
“I think everybody, like, chases, every entrepreneur chases, like, short-term, like, ARR numbers, like, in quarter, but then it, like, hurts your growth rate the next quarter. It's like, it would actually be better always to, like, push out deals, but, like, no…”
Insight
Biewald: Closed-Source Telemetry Gives W&B A Massive UX Advantage
“There's been a major pro, which is that all our competitors are open source. And what that means is that they don't get to see how users actually use their software. And so I think our software is a lot more ergonomic because we have like metrics on what peopl…”
Opinion
Biewald: Founders Are Lying About Their Volume Of Customer Discovery Meetings
“I think people are all lying to each other about how much like actual kind of customer meetings they're doing.”
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Biewald: Most Modern LLMs Were Built Using Weights And Biases
“And we actually helped most of the LLMs out there were built using weights and biases.”
Insight
Biewald: Top-Down Enterprise Software Startups Cannot Transition to Product-Led Growth
“The early companies had to sell to executives, which I totally understand. Like that's what crowdflower had to do. And the problem there is you kind of get stuck in these like multimillion dollar deals and like, you just can't get out of that. Like you can't s…”
Assertion Supported
Biewald: John Deere Has Deployed ML-Powered Targeted Weed Sprayers
“Like, you know, we worked with John Deere for years back from a figure eight days to, you know, weights and biases and they're, they've deployed sprayers that only target the weeds in, in fields. It's deployed.”