fal is worth $16B. It started because one image took 19 seconds.
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fal is worth $16B. It started because one image took 19 seconds. Thanksgiving 2022. Burkay Gur, CEO of fal, is in a cabin upstate trying to run Stable Diffusion on his company's Python cloud. The team can't understand why it's so slow. So they go deep on that one model and make it fast. Developers notice. Takeaways: 1. Curiosity is a valid strategy. Burkay says there was no big thesis behind it 2. Solve a pain your users feel every single time (waiting for an image) 3. Speed became fal's brand before fal had a market 4. When a side project's customers grow on their own, drop the main proje
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