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965: From PhD Side Project to $500M ARR: Will Falcon’s PyTorch Lightning Story

·1 hr 17 min·5 clips
Lightning AI merged with Voltage Park to become the third largest neocloud, hitting $500M ARR in under two years.
Jon Krohn interviews Will Falcon, CEO of Lightning AI, about the company's merger with Voltage Park to create a full-stack AI neocloud with $500M+ ARR and 35,000 GPUs. They discuss the evolution of PyTorch Lightning, the shift to GPU-first neoclouds, and Falcon's journey from a PhD student to leading a major AI infrastructure company.

As heard by us

A brisk AI infrastructure story that connects GPU scale, code rewrites, and open-source tooling.

Will Falcon's conversation gives the episode a clear throughline: a practical look at how one company is trying to make model training and deployment more cost effective.

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Why you'd press play

You want the founder story behind Lightning AI and how the stack got built.

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