1 to 100: Braintrust

In this episode of 1 to 100, host Usman Hanif is joined by Ankur Goyal, Founder and CEO at Braintrust, an enterprise-grade stack for building AI products, from evals to logging to data management. Ankur shares insights on product development strategy in the AI era, getting backed by the likes of Elad Gil and Greylock, and how he sees the future of AI development.

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LINKS:

Braintrust: https://www.braintrust.dev/

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TIMESTAMPS:

(00:00) Intro

(02:03) Overview of Braintrust

(02:58) Challenges in building AI products

(04:24) Braintrust's core product

(07:10) Killer feature of Braintrust

(10:17) Hard part about evals

(11:45) Primary challenges of the company

(13:54) Golden data sets and their importance

(17:57) Complexities of LLM applications

(24:03) Sponsor: WorkOs

(25:10) Moats for a company

(28:09) Lessons from Impira and Figma

(32:55) Building relationships in the Valley

(35:24) Identifying and solving core problems

(37:18) Balancing customer feedback and product vision

(40:37) Hiring and building a strong team

(50:28) Future of AI development

(56:28) Wrap