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Shawn Wang: belief

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

“While we're in the name-dropping and doing shout-outs, I think a lot of people in the San Francisco startup scene know Alana, and most people won't.”

— Shawn Wang

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Speaker
Shawn Wang
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
11 Oct 2024
Publisher
Latent Space

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…I'm just loving the moment. That's something that would be very hard for me to give up. Understood. While we're in the name-dropping and doing shout-outs, I think a lot of people in the San Francisco startup scene know Alana, and most people won't. Is there one thing that you think makes her so effective that other people can learn from, or that you learn from? Yeah, I mean, she genuinely cares about people. When I joined Figma, if you just look at my profile, I really don't mean this to sound arrogant, but if you look at my profile, it seems kind of obvious that if I were to start another company, there would be some VC interest. And literally there was. Again, I'm not that special, but...…

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