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Ankur Goyal: belief

11 Oct 2024 Latent Space Production AI Engineering starts with Evals — with Ankur Goyal of Braintrust

“There's one where it doesn't seem hard for a founder, and I think in those scenarios, it ends up being much harder for everyone else.”

— Ankur Goyal

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Ankur Goyal
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belief
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11 Oct 2024
Publisher
Latent Space

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…But is there a question of, because the company was shut down effectively after, you're basically letting down your customers? Yeah. How does that... I mean, obviously you don't have to cover this, so we can cut this out if it's too comfortable. But I think that's a question that people have when they go through acquisition offers. Yeah, yeah. No, I mean, it was hard. It was really hard. I would say that there's two scenarios. There's one where it doesn't seem hard for a founder, and I think in those scenarios, it ends up being much harder for everyone else. And then in the other scenario, it is devastating for the founder. In that scenario, I think it works out to be less devastating for everyone else. And I can tell you, it was extremely devastating. I was very, very sad for three, four months. To be acquired, but also to be shutting down.…

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