Amplify Partners

Super-fun interview with Amplify's Barr Yaron! Thanks for the great questions, truly just felt like catching up with a friend.

Imagine creating purely for yourself—no red carpets, no awards, just authentic creative expression. This week on Barrchives, we explore a fascinating trend observed by Cristóbal Valenzuela (CEO of Runway): individuals using AI tools to craft videos solely for personal fulfillment. Much like going to the gym—not to become an Olympian, but simply because it feels good and is good for you—Runway’s tools enable users to exercise their creative muscles, producing countless videos for the joy of creation itself. We also chat about running Runway's organization like a neural network – constantly gathering data, and modifying the weights. Runway looks for people who can modify their “weights” – adapting the way that they work with others as new data comes in. Cris also dove into the complexities of creating a “common language” between humans and models – prompts today are not enough for making films, games, or experiences with AI. Runway’s goal is to bridge this gap so humans and models find common ground to unleash creativity. So many great nuggets in here and wisdom from Cris. Full episode in the comments!

To be or not to be (open source)? It's one of the most consequential decisions that a technical founder makes... and yet it's not always a question that's carefully considered. What are good and bad reasons to open source your product? Andrew Manoske would know. He has spent most of his career building open source and open core products, most recently at HashiCorp, where he spent 7 years leading Vault Enterprise from creation to over $100M in ARR. Andy has seen just about every possible justification for products choosing to be open source or not, and in the latest post on Amplified, he breaks down good and bad reasons to be open source. From the moral imperative to Kerckhoff's Principle, there are plenty of good reasons to open source: just make sure you think it through. (link in comments)

The latest post on Amplified is from Andrew Manoske and it's about good and bad reasons to be open source. If you're a technical founder thinking about open sourcing your product, give it a read: https://lnkd.in/etizi8H7

AI startups – do you want some free money? Yes? If so, highly recommend reading SkyPilot's post about how to get $1M in cloud credits for AI startups, and use them well (which is half the battle)

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Sellers at technical companies should pay very close attention to what Troy Doles has done at WarpStream. Instead of hiring a team of SDRs, he built a series of automated pipelines that scale and perform (mostly) better for a fraction of the cost. We did a deep dive into what he's built and how you can try it yourself, featuring tools like Apollo.io, Clay, RB2B, Koala, and more. Technical founders and sellers, this one is for you. Check out the post in the comments, because LinkedIn refuses to render the preview properly

This week on Barrchives, I chat with Guillermo Rauch (Founder and CEO of Vercel) about how Vercel is changing the way frontend developers work. We discuss the motivation and process behind building Vercel’s AI products (v0 and AI SDK), and how AI will enable a more personalized web and shift the future of frontend cloud. Some of my favorite moments: - Guillermo believes that the best products adapt to the real world as it is today. This philosophy shapes Vercel’s approach to frontend, while planning for the long view that AI agents will act on behalf of humans on the web. - Guillermo explains how AI helps Vercel’s team scale their expertise and taste (through evals and frontier data) to their end users. - Borrowing wisdom from Instagram, Guillermo talks about the fundamentals of building strong developer experiences with progressive experiences that keep developers in the zone. Full episode in the comments!

We hosted our CISO & Head of Security Dinner last night! The conversation included: 1) The growing risk of insider threat, 2) How to secure models on Hugging Face, 3) Cryptographic signing for images/videos, 4) Automating incident response & TTP sharing, 5) Why Vault is unwieldy We had 16 security leaders join us, who have led teams at Airbnb, Lyft, Anthropic, Notion, Chime, Splunk, Robinhood, Segment, Amplitude, Twilio, Hex, Flexport, and many others.?