@mattshumer_: Crazy to see what happened to @GroqInc after my viral post. Jonathan spent years trying to explain why fast inference m…
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A single viral post from investor Matt Shumer dramatically boosted Groq's business by effectively demonstrating the value of fast inference, a point Groq founder Jonathan Ross had struggled to convey for years.
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Crazy to see what happened to @GroqInc after my viral post.
Jonathan spent years trying to explain why fast inference matters. One post of mine finally made people feel it.
I’ve done the same for Rork, OpenPipe and others.
This is my main value-add as an investor!
David Senra (@davidsenra): A single, viral post on X skyrocketed Groq’s business.
Groq Founder @JonathanRoss321 was looking for a way to show people that fast inference would be extremely useful.
He remembered an example from Eric Schmidt showing off an LLM at a conference three weeks before the ChatGPT
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