Lin Qiao
CEO of Fireworks AI who publicly announced $800M ARR milestone.
“We both know Lin at Fireworks... yeah, we're 30%, 35%. We hope to be more over time.”
Source→“"I had Lin Qiao, the founder of Fireworks, on the show the other day. And she was like, exactly that is why we'll have specialized models for every single company."”
Source→“I really believe the future will not be a few small number of AGI models dominant world. I really believe the future will be — it may be scary but I think that's true — it will be millions of specialized models, one per application per use case.”
Source→“Fireworks AI CEO Lin Qiao said on X Wednesday that the company surpassed $800 million in annualized revenue, up from $250 million in late October last year... in talks to raise at $15B valuation.”
Source→“Fireworks surged from $250M to $800M ARR in roughly seven months.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.