Santiago Suárez
“We've been named the third most innovative company in fintech by Fast Company globally... in the last 24 months, a lot of our long-term investments have really paid off and have allowed us to ship extremely exciting product.”
Source→“We're investing in transformers. So we're building our own transformers using our own GPUs to train our own kind of like GPT of sorts. We call it AdiDNA with incredible early results.”
Source→“After like three or four cold LinkedIn emails, he was like, okay, fine. I'm like, come. And then we go meet him. And he was so generous... I think NPS for a company with less than a thousand employees is a terrible metric. You should just listen to customer service calls.”
Source→“Jamie hated consultants. So he had banned all consultants, but he had a strategy group of 10 people... I was there for six years and it was incredible.”
Source→“Navia was doing probabilistic computing back in 2010. And we used to say... our programs are so special because every time we run them, you get a different output. This is back in 2010.”
Source→“Anthropic's built on a monorepo. Google, obviously, famously is a monorepo company. But when we started the company, microservices was where it was at.”
Source→“I recently read this incredible post on Twitter by this Square investor Sean McGuire about... it was an incredible treatise on how Elon Musk runs companies. And we end up realizing he spends all his time on the most important thing.”
Source→“I want to build my own. So I started from an empty EC2 instance. And from there, we built everything. And once I figured out, okay, if this is helpful for me at this scale, and if I'm able to do this kind of in between meetings, basically, then the entire company should be able to do this.”
Source→AI-extracted from podcast / newsletter / paper summaries. May contain errors.