Yet Another Infra Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Join Vitaly Gordon, David Adrian, Marcus Eagan, and Alex Clemmer in a conversation about why most security products are useless, the asymmetry between product users and adversaries, how groupthink in tech is hindering innovation, and more. Follow them on Twitter:Vitaly Gordon — @vitalygordonDavid Adrian — @davidcadrian Marcus Eagan — @MarcusForPeaceAlex Clemmer — @hausdorff_spaceLinks:Yet Another Infrastructure Group - https://www.yaig.dev/
Summary - Vitaly Gordon, Diego Oppenheimer, Alex Clemmer, and Yevgeny Pats explore the future of AI infrastructure, the potential of large language models as a mass-market offering, the distinctive edge of open source in AI and ML operations, and more. Follow them on Twitter:Vitaly Gordon — @vitalygordon Diego Oppenheimer — @doppenhe Alex Clemmer — @hausdorff_spaceYevgeny Pats — @yevgenypatsLinks:Yet Another Infrastructure Group - https://www.yaig.dev/
Join Vitaly, Yash Tulsani, Moin and Alex as they discuss AI bias and how it is handled by AI researchers. AI bias has become a contentious issue, with the risk that AI models will be used in production and will discriminate against protected classes such as races, sexes and disabled people. Follow them on Twitter:Vitaly Gordon — @vitalygordon Yash Tulsani — @yash_g_tMoin Nadeem — @moinnadeemAlex Clemmer — @hausdorff_spaceLinks:Yet Another Infrastructure Group - https://www.yaig.dev/
Summary - Join Vitaly Gordon, Ian Livingstone, and Alex Clemmer in their discussion about the recent public letter calling a pause to AI experiments, their breakdown of misconceptions about language models, the potential impact of NLP processing, and more. Follow them on Twitter:Vitaly Gordon — @vitalygordonIan Livingstone — @ianlivingstoneAlex Clemmer — @hausdorff_spaceLinks:Yet Another Infrastructure Group - https://www.yaig.dev/Reuters Article -Australian mayor readies world's first defamation lawsuit over ChatGPT content -https://tinyurl.com/mrytkxp4
Summary - Vitaly Gordon talks to Bucky Moore of Kleiner Perkins about distribution-focused go-to-market strategies for founders, learning from experts for better investments, comparing vertical SaaS and infrastructure software, and the upside of the compound startup model to unlock maximum market value.Follow them on Twitter:Vitaly Gordon - @vitalygordonBucky Moore - @buckymooreLinks:Yet Another Infrastructure Group - https://www.yaig.dev/
Summary - Join Vitaly Gordon, Jordan Tigani, Kurt Mackey, and Guido Appenzeller in their insightful discussion about the myths about company culture, what the public sees about a company versus what’s actually happening, how culture impacts company positioning, and more. Follow them on Twitter:Vitaly Gordon - @vitalygordonJordan Tigani - @jrdntgnKurt Mackey - @mrkurtGuido Appenzeller - @appenzLinks:Yet Another Infrastructure Group - https://www.yaig.dev/
Summary - Join Vitaly Gordon, Chase Roberts, Alex Clemmer, and Rajko Radovanović as they talk about the mistakes technical founders make when starting companies, the importance of the relationship between product and go-to-market strategy as a founder when creating a new category, and more.
Follow them on Twitter:
Vitaly Gordon - @vitalygordon
Rajko Radovanović - @rajko_rad
Alex Clemmer - @hausdorff_space
Chase Roberts - @chsrbrts
Links:
Rajko’s Neural Ranking & Relevance Landscape Map - https://twitter.com/rajko_rad/status/1585043048752611328
Jerry Chen’s Unit of Value blog post - https://news.greylock.com/unit-of-value-a-framework-for-scaling-42c092fba887
Cornell paper on Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space - https://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3781
Buildt blog post - https://www.buildt.ai/blog/viral-ripout
Yet Another Infrastructure Group - https://www.yaig.dev/
Join Jamin Ball, Vitaly Gordon, Steve Kamman, and Alex Clemmer in a conversation about the potential for a fourth public cloud provider, the structural constraints of investing in the current market, the bar for future investments, and more.
Follow them on Twitter:
Vitaly Gordon - @vitalygordon
Steve Kamman — @SteveKamman
Alex Clemmer - @hausdorff_space
Jamin Ball — @jaminball
Summary:
Join Vitaly Gordon, Ryan Carniato, Yoko Li, and Alex Clemmer as they discuss why the world needs another frontend framework, the potential of large language models, AI misinformation, and more.
Follow them on Twitter:
Ryan Carniato — @RyanCarniato
Vitaly Gordon - @vitalygordon
Yoko Li — @stuffyokodraws
Alex Clemmer - @hausdorff_space
Links:
Yet Another Infrastructure Group - https://www.yaig.dev/
Summary - Join Vitaly Gordon (CEO & Co-founder of Faros AI) and Martin Casado (General Partner at a16z) for a special episode in which the two talk about the necessary transition technical founders need to make from being product visionaries to “go-to-market savants”, the dated concept of product market fit, the importance of adjusting the market rather than just fitting into it, go-to-market strategies, and more.
Follow them on Twitter:
Vitaly Gordon - @vitalygordon
Martin Casado - @martin_casado
Links:
Market Annealing: Getting to $10M ARR - https://a16z.com/2023/01/11/market-annealing/
Yet Another Infrastructure Group - https://www.yaig.dev/
Summary - Vitaly Gordon, Hassy Veldstra, Ian Livingstone, and Alex Clemmer get together to discuss the myth of “overnight success” infrastructure companies, the important role API gateways play for developers, if “no-code” is really a thing, and more.
Follow them on Twitter:
Vitaly Gordon - @vitalygordon
Hassy Veldstra - @hveldstra
Ian Livingstone - @ianlivingstone
Alex Clemmer - @hausdorff_space
Vitaly Gordon (https://twitter.com/vitalygordon), Guido Appenzeller (https://twitter.com/appenz), Moin Nadeem (https://twitter.com/moinnadeem), and Alex Clemmer (https://twitter.com/hausdorff_space) talk about the emergence of a three tier structure in the AI industry, why the infrastructure layer will be the one to own in the AI stack, the implications of Generative AI platforms, and more.
Follow them on Twitter:
Vitaly Gordon — @vitalygordon
Moin Nadeem — @moinnadeem
Alex Clemmer — @hausdorff_space
Guido Appenzeller — @appenz
Books mentioned on the show:
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Join Vitaly, Rajko Radovanović, Steve Kamman, and Yoko Li as they talk about the evolution of cloud computing, how enterprise companies play an important role, the dynamics of the World Wide Web’s impact on the software infrastructure market, and more.
Follow them on Twitter:
Steve Kamman — @SteveKamman
Rajko Radovanović — @rajko_rad
Yoko Li — @stuffyokodraws
Vitaly Gordon — @vitalygordon
In this "OG" episode - Vitaly Gordon (Faros AI), Erik Bernhardsson (Modal), Anu Sharma (Investor), Alex Clemmer (Moment), and Timothy Chen (Essence VC) explore the dynamics of the software cloud industry: dealing with the perverse incentives of cloud providers, opportunities to challenge incumbents, and more.
Follow them on Twitter:
Vitaly Gordon — @vitalygordon
Erik Bernhardsson — @bernhardsson
Anu Sharma — @anusharma
Alex Clemmer — @hausdorff_space
Timothy Chen — @tnachen
Vitaly Gordon (Faros. AI), Alex Clemmer (Moment), Moin Nadeem (Mosaic ML), Jamin Ball (Altimeter Capital), and Lauren Balik (Upright Analytics) discuss the commercial opportunities of AI, how startups should approach training AI models, what engineers and investors are missing about pricing models, and more. Follow them on Twitter: Vitaly Gordon — @vitalygordon Alex Clemmer — @hausdorff_space Moin Nadeem — @moinnadeem Jamin Ball — @jaminball Lauren Balik — @laurenbalik