S7 E9: William Falcon, Lightning AI

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders

Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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4.6 • 216 Ratings

🗓️ 18 October 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Will Falcon did not have a traditional path to tech. He is originally from South America, and moved to the US when he was a teenager. Later in life, he went through Navy Seal training and served the country for 6 years, doing primarily special reconnaissance. After leaving the military, he taught himself how to code and "fell into" the world of AI. He finds the dynamic of uncertainty in the military translates over to the tech startup world. Outside of tech, he likes to try random things, but digs surfing, swimming, and doing art. In his undergrad program, Will created a toolset to help you scale code within the deep learning, AI world. Prior to joining Facebook, he open sourced his tooling and shared it with the world. He noticed that many large enterprises were adopting his toolset, and in doing so, they were running into the same problems - problems that this current iteration could fix. This is the creation story of Lightning AI. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	The type of engineer that builds products and does whatever it takes to get the products out there,
0:07.2	and I'll accumulate all the tech that I need to. I don't really care about that.
0:11.0	Your goal is to have pristine code. Your goal is to actually build the product, right?
0:14.8	And I think a lot of engineers over index too much on, oh my God, my code needs to be perfect.
0:19.2	I'm like, well, great. Like, if you go out of business, what are you going to do?
0:22.1	Write a tweet that your code was perfect, at least?
0:24.1	Like, that doesn't make sense.
0:25.7	The problem with us is that there's stuff that relies on infrastructure, which is a little
0:30.4	bit different.
0:31.6	Tech that on the platform side will actually make the product experience bad.
0:36.5	My name is William Falcon.
0:37.9	I'm the creator of Pytorch Lightning, now known as Lightning and the CEO of Lightning AI.
0:47.7	This is Code Story, the podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry and build and lead.
0:59.5	A team that has your back.
1:02.4	I'm your host Noah Laparte.
1:03.9	And today how Will Falcon built the platform and is leading the charge to power the AI in your app life fast. All this and more
1:14.7	on coat story. Will Falcon did not have a traditional path to tech. He's originally from
1:26.8	South America and moved to the U.S. when he was a teenager.
1:30.2	Later on in life, he went through seal training and served the country for six years doing primarily special reconnaissance.
1:37.0	After leaving the military, he taught himself how to code and fell into the world of AI.
1:41.4	He finds the dynamic of uncertainty in the military translates over to the tech
1:45.9	startup world. Outside of tech, he likes to try random things, but dig surfing, swimming, and
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