How to build an ML startup from scratch, product design, open source strategy, pricing mechanics | Phil Howes

Phil Howes is the cofounder and Chief Scientist of Baseten, an ML application builder for data scientists. They have raised $20M from top tier investors such as Greylock, Mustafa Suleyman, DJ Patil, and Greg Brockman. He was previously the co-founder of Shape, a people analytics platform acquired by Reflektive in 2018. Prior to that, he was an ML Engineer at Gumroad. He has a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Sydney.

In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Top 3 learnings from running his first startup
- What he's building now at Baseten
- How to think about design and UX for ML products
- Pricing mechanics
- Competitive landscape
- Their open source strategy
- How they got their first 10 users
- Self serve strategy for ML products
- Measuring customer success

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