Weights & Biases was recently acquired by CoreWeave, and host Lukas Biewald used GitHub's acquisition as his model of a successful one.
“Weights and Biases was recently acquired by CoreWeave, and GitHub was one of the analogies that I used in my head”
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Lukas Biewald says Christopher Ahlberg founded Spotfire around 1996 and sold it 11 years later.
“you founded Spotfire back in, I think, 1996, and and sold it, um, 11 years later”
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Lukas Biewald says Recorded Future announced it was being acquired by Mastercard for $2.65 billion.
“you announced that, uh, you you were getting acquired by by Mastercard for $2.65 billion”
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Host Lukas Biewald says CrewAI's website claims that 40 of the Fortune 500 companies use CrewAI.
“And now your website says that 40 of the Fortune 500 uses, um, CrewAI.”
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Sridhar Ramaswamy previously led Google's AdWords division, which the host says generated over $100 billion in yearly revenue.
“And before that, he was the leader of AdWords at Google, a division that generated over $100 billion of of revenue yearly.”
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Salesforce built its retrieval-augmented generation pipeline inside its virtual private cloud, which it says matters for customers' trust boundary.
“we built them. rag, um, within our VPC, that's very important for our customers in terms of of the the trust boundary”
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