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How Weights & Biases found product-market fit: Lukas Biewald on dev-focused ML ops

Startup Field Guide by Unusual Ventures: The Product Market Fit Podcast

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Journey to Product-Market Fit in ML Operations

The chapter details the speaker's challenges in securing funding, skepticism around neural networks, and the creation of a product for machine learning practitioners. It explores the struggle with investors, the evolution from contrarian to mainstream ideas, and finding the 'aha' moment with the transformers architecture. The narrative also focuses on early design partners, deployment challenges for startups, and the importance of catering to ML practitioners' needs while resisting expansion temptations.

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