MLOps.community Investing in MLOps // Leigh Marie Braswell and Davis Treybig // MLOps Coffee Sessions #81
MLOps Coffee Sessions #81 with Davis Treybig and Leigh Marie Braswell, Machine Learning from the Viewpoint of Investors.
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// Abstract
Machine learning is a rapidly evolving space that can be hard to keep track of. Every year, thousands of research papers are published in the space, and hundreds of new companies are built both in applied machine learning as well as in machine learning tooling.
In this podcast, we interview two investors who focus heavily on machine learning to get their take on the state of the machine learning industry today: Leigh-Marie Braswell at Founders Fund and Davis Treybig at Innovation Endeavors. We discuss their perspectives on opportunities within MLOps and applied machine learning, common pitfalls and challenges seen in machine learning startups, and new projects they find exciting and interesting in the space.
// Bio
Davis Treybig
Davis (email: davis@innovationendeavors.com) is currently a principal on the investment team at Innovation Endeavors, an early-stage venture firm focused on highly technical companies. He primarily focuses on software infrastructure, especially data tooling and security. Prior to Innovation Endeavors, Davis was a product manager at Google, where he worked on the Pixel phone and the developer platform for the Google Assistant. Davis studied computer science and electrical engineering in college.
Leigh Marie Braswell
Leigh Marie (Twitter: @LM_Braswell) is an investor at Founders Fund. Before joining Founders Fund, she was an early engineer & the first product manager at Scale AI, where she originally built & later led product development for the LiDAR/3D annotation products, used by many autonomous vehicles, robots, and AR/VR companies as a core step in their machine learning lifecycles. She has also done software development at Blend, machine learning at Google, and quantitative trading at Jane Street.
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Timestamps:
[00:00] Introduction to Leigh Marie Braswell and Davis Treybig
[03:23] Where are we now in MLOps?
[05:50] Ripe for consolidation
[13:08] Real pain to solve
[18:20] Modern data stack vs modern ML stack
[25:25] Strong use cases for ML with a huge sea of long-tail
[28:43] A funny meme with a Huggingface
[32:23] Looking at open-source as an investment
[36:44] Tips and tricks to rally a team and a vision for Startups
[43:55] What surprised you over the last year?
[47:16] Societal norms and acceptance of things
[47:55] Where to get in touch with Leigh Marie and Davis: Leigh Marie - Twitter: @LM_Braswell
Davis - email: davis@innovationendeavors.com