Scaling for AI Devs: How RunPod is Growing and Evolving with its Community

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The DTC Enterprise Tech Podcast

Dell Technologies Capital

15 episodes

3 months ago

Conversations between the venture investors and operators at Dell Technologies Capital and the people who are building what's next in enterprise technologies.

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Conversations between the venture investors and operators at Dell Technologies Capital and the people who are building what's next in enterprise technologies.

Technology

Business,

Entrepreneurship

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Scaling for AI Devs: How RunPod is Growing and Evolving with its Community

The DTC Enterprise Tech Podcast

35 minutes

9 months ago

Scaling for AI Devs: How RunPod is Growing and Evolving with its Community

DTC's Radhika Malik in conversation with RunPod CEO and Co-founder Zhen Lu on the company's modest beginnings, accelerated growth, and learning to evolve with and for your ideal customers.

RunPod launched with a classic tech startup story -- in the basements of co-founders Zhen Lu and Pardeep Singh, requiring some electrical rewiring and circuit breaker shenanigans at both homes.
Immediately found traction with creatives playing around with Disco Diffusion but then began to attract developers and development teams working on GenAI-driven projects with commercial aspirations.
Zhen talks about learning as much as possible from the platform's earliest customers and then evolving RunPod through a strategy partnering with some of the most promising projects to prioritize feature development and rollout.
Some surprising early use cases with many that have already hit on popular and financial success
Is this an AI bubble? Yes, but...