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965: From PhD Side Project to $500M ARR: Will Falcon’s PyTorch Lightning Story
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- Feb 10, 2026
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Summary
CEO of Lightning AI Will Falcon speaks to podcast host and Lightning AI fellow Jon Krohn about the company’s merger with Voltage Park, and why Will has named it the “full-stack AI neo-cloud for enterprises and frontier labs”. Lightning AI’s offer is a secure, flexible, and collaborative environment that can run on the cloud, all essentials for early-stage startups. Listen to the episode to hear Will Falcon discuss Lightning AI Studio, founding PyTorch Lightning, and how he came to found his AI company. This episode is brought to you by the Dell, by Intel, by Fabi and by Cisco. Additional materials: www.superdatascience.com/965 Interested in sponsoring a SuperDataScience Podcast episode? Email [email protected] for sponsorship information. In this episode you will learn: (02:20) Lightning AI’s merger with Voltage Park (20:54) About neo-clouds (43:51) How Will founded Lightning AI (54:48) Current gaps in the AI in workplace