I’m honored to welcome my old friend Fraser Kelton to the first episode of The Slow Hunch Podcast, where we explore the often slow, twisty and unexpected paths that lead to big breakthroughs.

Fraser was head of product at OpenAI leading up to and through the launch of ChatGPT

Partner @USV. Student of cities and the internet. https://nickgrossman.xyz

Fraser and I go way back, to when he was CEO of Koko, a @USV portfolio company circa 2015 that used AI/ML to address online mental health and trust & safety

During our time working on Koko, we got an early hint of what might become possible at the intersection of AI and language

After Koko was acquired by Airbnb, Fraser fell further down the AI rabbit hole, and then later managed to land the role at OpenAI after cold-emailing Ilya and seeing a demo of a precursor to GPT-3

We’ll get into the story of how ChatGPT came into being – but almost didn’t

And finally, we’ll look ahead at what might be possible from here.

HUGE thanks to Fraser for the conversation here.  He is so knowledgeable and thoughtful, and his enthusiasm for what the future may hold is infectious.

Full audio and video links here: 

https://theslowhunch.transistor.fm/episodes/fraser-kelton-gp-at-spark-capital-former-head-of-product-at-openai

And collectible post on @paragraph here:

https://nickgrossman.xyz/introducing-the-slow-hunch-podcast,-and-episode-1-with-fraser-kelton