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How do you turn research into a billion-dollar company? We asked Ion Stoica, who did it with Databricks (>$100B), Anyscale and Arena AI, while his Berkeley lab built Ray, vLLM, and SGLang. His signal that a project is ready: users start asking "who maintains this after the students graduate?" New episode of The Information Bottleneck. You can find it on our website, Youtube or the apps
What makes Ion special? He's deeply in the details. In the office every day, these days. Writing PRDs like an IC PM. Ion loves the game. Nothing/no-one is below him. Nothing is taken for granted. Here he is next to me, working on Arena, literally right now. A true 🐐