• Jesse Pollak (Coinbase) and Conner Ruhl (Stability AI) on Why Open Tech Matters

  • Sep 26 2023
  • Length: 47 mins
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Jesse Pollak (Coinbase) and Conner Ruhl (Stability AI) on Why Open Tech Matters

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  • Backdrop founder Joey DeBruin sits down with Jesse Pollak, the creator of Base, Coinbase's L2 and Conner Ruhl, a senior engineer at Stability AI to talk about why open tech matters in frontier technologies. This episode was recorded as a part of 100.builders, a four week program to support people building open tech in crypto and AI.

    Chapters | Timestamps:

    00:00:44 Intro
    00:04:38 On builder energy
    00:08:05 Building without writing code
    00:16:41 The case for shipping imperfect products
    00:22:30 Scalability challenges of open source AI
    00:27:25 Embracing open source culture
    00:32:11 Hardware accessibility.
    00:37:03 Building consumer products on-chain.
    00:40:47 AI and crypto revolution.
    00:46:19 APIs for getting started.

    Joey's takeaways - https://www.flyingpenguins.io/p/small-matters-in-open-tech


    Relevant Links:

    • Backdrop - backdrop.so
    • Backdrop on Twitter - twitter.com/withBackdrop
    • 100 Builders - 100.builders
    • Joey on Twitter - twitter.com/joey_debruin
    • Jesse on Twitter - twitter.com/jessepollak
    • Conner on Twitter - twitter.com/connerruhl

    The Backdrop podcast is produced by the team at Spectral.

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