A few weeks ago, Tanguy Goretti replied to my newsletter and asked me to come to Brussels for an AI conference that didn't exist yet. 11 minutes later, I told him I'm in. That conference became Off the Radar, an invitation-only event with 450 guests and speakers from OpenAI, Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Vercel, Stripe, Cloudflare, Gradium, Fundamental, Linkup, etc. But the best part is that those speakers were here to share demos and talk about the technical problems they're facing every day. In other words: a tech conference. I had the pleasure to interview Lélio Renard Lavaud, the VP of Engineering at Mistral who has seen it all over the past three years. What they're building is incredible, tackling several hard problems at once. I challenged him a bit with some hard questions and I think it led to a genuinely interesting conversation. Can't wait for the next one. In the meantime, subscribe to my newsletter ➡️ go to hypertext.fyi (Hypertext is sponsored by Box)
Congrats to you! It was such a lively and well paced fireside chat. I particularly enjoyed how you went "off script" and dived straight ahead with the curveballs again and again. And of course props to Lélio Renard Lavaud for not dodging them and showing a path for the European tech scene. The other side of the Atlantic might have more money [sic], but hopefully we will realize more and more that we have nothing to be jealous of. Thank you again 🙏🏽
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Thanks again for coming Romain 🫶 Was almost too easy to pitch you!