Lessons from a $130M acquisition, ML model deployment for data scientists, Discovering product-market fit | Harry Glaser, cofounder and CEO of Modelbit

Infinite Curiosity Pod with Prateek Joshi

Harry Glaser is the cofounder and CEO of Modelbit, a platform for data scientists to deploy machine learning models. He was previously the cofounder and CEO of Periscope Data, which raised more than $50M in funding from investors such as Bessemer, Threshold, Susa, and others. Periscope got acquired for $130M by SiSense. Prior to that, he was a product manager at Google.
In this episode, we cover a range of topics including:
- Key learnings from Periscope
- What experiments did he run at Periscope during the product-market fit discovery phase
- How to hire executives
- Motivation behind launching Modelbit
- How is Modelbit being used today
- Content marketing for developer tooling companies
- Top 2-3 favorite use cases for Modelbit
Harry's favorite books:
Two books by Kazuo Ishiguro -- The Remains Of The Day, Never Let Me Go
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