Jordan and Erica chat with Fixie.ai co-founder and former Harvard CS professor on the journey from researcher to Google eng leader and then to startup life prior to founding Fixie, a new platform for building LLM-based apps (a Redpoint portfolio company). We also talk about having Mark Zuckerberg in his CS class, ChatGPT Plugins and the AI ecosystem, and what the future might look like for our kids with AGI. You can find Matt on Twitter (@mdwelsh) and learn more about Fixie at https://www.fixie.ai/
(1:06) - Matt talks about his early days at Berklee and Harvard
(6:45) - Making the jump to the start-up world
(8:15) - Matt explains what Fixie does
(11:30) - How Matt thinks about use cases for Fixie
(14:20) - How work might change with AI's integration
(17:04) - The future of LLM's
(20:30) - Matt's take on the race to AGI
(25:20) - How Matt thinks about the future of the world for his kids and how they might use AI
(29:24) - Quick fire round
With your co-hosts:
@jasoncwarner
- Former CTO GitHub, VP Eng Heroku & Canonical
@ericabrescia
- Former COO Github, Founder Bitnami (acq’d by VMWare)
@patrickachase
- Partner at Redpoint, Former ML Engineer LinkedIn
@jacobeffron
- Partner at Redpoint, Former PM Flatiron Health
