Unsupervised Learning with Jacob Effron
00:57:09 · Patrick Chase, Erik Bernhardsson, Jacob Effron
[00:57:09] S2: I've heard you say that you've always thought of modal as your twenty year project. You're five years in. What do years ten through twenty look like? [00:57:21] S1: Wow. Mean, I'll hire a bunch of people that can do a lot of those sort of, you know, I'm too in the weeds of, like, everything right now. So I... But I don't know. Like, I I I just, like, love this stuff. Like, I I I love to keep working on this. Like, I I think, you know, year ten to fifteen, we're gonna look more like a conglomerate. We're gonna have a lot of different products. We're gonna have probably some, like, crazy bets going to moon and Mars or whatever. But I I still hope to be quite involved in the sort of the high level, like, resource allocation and what are the things we're betting on, and I'll probably be less involved in sort of day to day, like, you know, let's get a contract from this GPU vendor, like, whatever. But, like, I think that, like, sort of, like, high level, like, resource allocation and stuff like that to me is... That's the most fun and and hope to to stay involved in that for for for another twenty years, hopefully, maybe longer. [00:58:09] S0: Yeah. I mean, if we keep current pacing at least five more unsupervised learning episodes in that time frame. [00:58:14] S1: Right? Yeah. Exactly. [00:58:16] S2: Well, Eric, thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. We'll give you kind of the the last call to action for the audience. If there's... Where can they go to learn more about Modal or anything that you would direct them to?
00:58:16 · Patrick Chase, Erik Bernhardsson, Jacob Effron, Anne Maris
[00:58:16] S2: Well, Eric, thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. We'll give you kind of the the last call to action for the audience. If there's... Where can they go to learn more about Modal or anything that you would direct them to? [00:58:29] S1: Well, you should obviously go to modal.com. You should also run pip install modal in terminal and and play around with it. You know, there's there's a lot of people maybe listening to the show who are building startups or thinking about building startups and, you know, would love to see all the cool stuff they're gonna build. And, you know, hopefully, at Modal, we can help you with those startups. So so let me know. And feel free to reach out, by the way. Like, I always love talking to customers. But feel free to play around with Modal, I'm looking forward to see what everyone's gonna build. [00:58:55] S0: I'm Jacob Efron, and this has been Unsupervised Learning, a podcast where I get to talk to the smartest people in AI and ask them tons of questions about what's happening with models and what it means for businesses in the world. As I hope is clear, I have a ton of fun doing this. It's a nights and weekends project in addition to my day job as an investor at Redpoint. But our ability to get these incredible guests on really comes from folks like you subscribing to [00:59:17] S3: the podcast, sharing it with friends. It's really what ultimately makes this whole thing work. And so please consider doing that, and thank you so much for your support [00:59:23] S0: and listening. We'll see you next episode.