Anjney Midha

We figured it out.

It was a tough...

few years where we had to pivot the business.

But we landed the plane.

Essentially, a lot of the distributed systems we'd built on the backend side ended up being quite valuable.

We sold that to a company called Discord, which is a chat app for gamers.

Awesome.

Our listeners.

So, you know, about a month after I sold the business, I got a call from some friends who were running research at OpenAI.

And we'd all been, you know, friends in the machine learning community in the Bay Area.

And they said, Anj, you know, we've trained a little model called GPT-3 and we think it's the best since.

Just a little model.

Yeah.

Nobody really paid attention.

They were like, well, nobody cares, but we think it's the best thing since sliced bread.

And we want to leave and turn this into a standalone business.

But, you know, it'd be helpful to get some of your advice on how to do that.

And I couldn't really come on board full time at the time with them because I had to integrate my company into the acquire.

But I came on as their angel and nights and weekends, I worked with them on the business plan and who we should raise from.

That company is Anthropic.