Alexandr (Alex) Wang

At the time, it was tough going.

I would just spend all my time coding.

Then every once in a while, I would post something to the internet.

And then I would beg all of my friends.

I would say, please go upvote this.

Please go like this.

Please give me some ounce of traction.

And yeah, that was the early days.

damn was it scale ai at the beginning yeah scale ai actually was called it was uh it was scale api at first and then because that was just like that website was available and then it became scale ai like year and a half later um but uh

Yeah, so the whole, I mean, early startups are so gnarly.

It's, I mean, it's really crazy.

If you look at like all these big companies and you like, you know, think about what they were like in the early days, they're all pretty rough and tumble.

But the coolest thing, like we, because we started working with all these companies

automotive companies and working on self-driving, it quickly became hyper interesting because this was like one of the great scientific and engineering challenges of the time.

And we ultimately ended up being successful.

Waymo, one of our customers, is now launched and driving large-scale robo-taxi services in San Francisco, LA, Phoenix.

They're launching in more cities.

Wow.

It's pretty amazing.

Wow.