Edwin Chen
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You guys hit a billion in revenue in less than four years with around 60 to 70 people
Today, my guest is edwin chan, founder and ceo of surge ai
What does it take to create higher quality data
That is so interesting
We’re basically teaching our models to chase dopamine instead of truth
Interesting
I love that we’re sharing this story
Exactly
I love that
And it’s worked out
After a gpt-3 launch in 2020
And not by constantly tweeting and hyping and fundraising
I love how just you’re just full of endless, beautiful, and very deep answers
Key Concepts
- A Correct Number
- A Couple Years Ago
- A Linguist Learning And Alien Language
- Ai
- All Of Our Workers
- All The Sycophancy Issues With Chatgpt
- Apple Podcasts
- Beau De Marot By Douglas Hofstadter
- Different Ways That Humans Learn
- Doing Amazing Science
- Every Project
- Happening
- Hiring
- Is Figure Out Why
- Isolated Benchmarks
- Itself Is A Bit Philosophical
- Marketing
- Ml
- Of Real World
- Of Startups
- Of Taste And Sophistication
- Of What Surge Is
- Podcast Episode
- Product
- Quality
- Revenue
- Right Now
- Slightly Different Things
- Team
- That
- That I Was Not Expecting
- That Matches Exactly What Happened
- The Right Path
- The Show At Lennyspodcast
- Their Dream Objective Functions
- There
- These Benchmarks
- These Things
- This Calculation
- To Accuracy And Instruction Following
- To Pr Because Their Sales Team
- To Stress About Agi
- Valley
- Valley Game
- What It Did
- Where You Went Wrong
- You Too Much
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