Akshat Bubna
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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We had a bunch of art installations, which is kind of fun seeing our products on pedestals next to Rodin.
I actually first met Eric, who's the CEO, through an investor.
And back then, Eric was already thinking about building a new kind of runtime.
And he got there thinking through why are workflow orchestration products so hard to use?
It's because you have to run them on Kubernetes.
Kubernetes is hard to manage.
It's not built for burstiness and custom images and has a terrible developer experience.
Yeah, I mean, initially what we were thinking about was if we build a better runtime, it's a very useful primitive in itself.
There's a lot of...
things that get solved by serverless functions.
You can do ETL stuff, you can do job queues, you can do all this diversity processing, which it turns out every company had needs for.
But then we also were thinking about this as like, this is a primitive that we can build a whole collection of products on, which are very verticalized.
So perhaps data engineering would have been the first one, but we were thinking about...
Inference, back then it was more classical inference, like computer vision stuff and running XGBoost and whatnot.
But we added GPUs to the product a year before ChatGPT came out.
Nice.
We just didn't think it would be that big of a deal.
Yeah, just like add A100.
Yeah, primarily it's just none of the tooling that was out there was built for, one, a really great developer experience.
And also there's a general trend of a lot of the workloads that we were seeing were very, this is, I wish there's a better word for it, but compute heavy.
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