{"podcast":{"title":"Gradient Dissent: Conversations on AI","slug":"gradient-dissent","podcast_index_feed_id":1020509,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/gradient-dissent/","website_url":"https://wandb.ai/site/resources/podcast","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/25fd1181-b46e-459b-85a5-d397eec4cdcf/JDLDW81K-wlJoAWL7ZnxLdTp.jpg","author":"Lukas Biewald","episode_count":136,"summary":"Join Lukas Biewald on Gradient Dissent, an AI-focused podcast brought to you by Weights & Biases. Dive into fascinating conversations with industry giants from NVIDIA, Meta, Google, Lyft, OpenAI, and more. Explore the cutting-edge of AI and learn the intricacies of bringing models into production.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent"},"episode":{"title":"Chris, Shawn, and Lukas — The Weights & Biases Journey","slug":"chris-shawn-and-lukas-the-weights-biases-journey","published_at":"2021-11-05T11:45:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent/chris-shawn-and-lukas-the-weights-biases-journey","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent","url":"https://wandb.ai/site/resources/podcast","audio_url":"https://podcasts.captivate.fm/media/c3cba7d5-65d4-4084-8921-fff6e0ff341b/gd-founders-revert-v2.mp3","summary":"You might know him as the host of Gradient Dissent, but Lukas is also the CEO of Weights & Biases, a developer-first ML tools platform! In this special episode, the three W&B co-founders — Chris (CVP), Shawn (CTO), and Lukas (CEO) — sit down to tell the company's origin stories, reflect on the highs and lows, and give advice to engineers looking to start their own business. Chris reveals the W&B server architecture (tl;dr - React + GraphQL), Shawn shares his favorite product feature (it's a hidden frontend layer), and Lukas explains why it's so important to work with customers that inspire you. The complete show notes (transcript and links) can be found here: http://wandb.me/gd-wandb-cofounders --- Connect with us: 📍 Chris' Twitter: https://twitter.com/vanpelt 📍 Shawn's Twitter: https://twitter.com/shawnup 📍 Lukas' Twitter: https://twitter.com/l2k 📍 W&B's Twitter: https://twitter.com/weights_biases --- Timestamps: 0:00 Intro 1:29 The stories behind Weights & Biases 7:45 The W&B tech stack 9:28 Looking back at the beginning 11:42 Hallmark moments 14:49 Favorite product features 16:49 Rewriting the W&B backend 18:21 The importance of customer feedback 21:18 How Chris and Shawn have changed 22:35 How the ML space has changed 28:24 Staying positive when things look bleak 32:19 Lukas' advice to new entrepreneurs 35:29 Hopes for the next five years 38:09 Making a paintbot & model understanding 41:30 Biggest bottlenecks in deployment 44:08 Outro 44:38 Bonus: Under- vs overrated technologies --- Subscribe and listen to our podcast today! 👉 Apple Podcasts: http://wandb.me/apple-podcasts​​ 👉 Google Podcasts: http://wandb.me/google-podcasts​ 👉 Spotify: http://wandb.me/spotify​","meta_description":"You might know him as the host of Gradient Dissent, but Lukas is also the CEO of Weights & Biases, a developer-first ML tools platform! In this specia…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2953,"processing_state":"failed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gradient-dissent/episodes/chris-shawn-and-lukas-the-weights-biases-journey/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/gradient-dissent/chris-shawn-and-lukas-the-weights-biases-journey.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}