Anna Patterson

Recent appearances

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  AI Infra for Long Context Model Training | Anna Patterson, founder of Ceramic AI

  June 17, 2025 · 📺 Infinite Curiosity with Prateek Joshi

  Anna Patterson is the cofounder of Ceramic, an AI infrastructure platform for large scale model training. They raised their seed round led by NEA along with amazing investors such as Lukas Biewald, Laszlo Bock, Sean Carey, Jeff Hammerbacher, Ankit Jain, Seval Oz, Joanna Rees, Gokul Rajaram, and Ram Sriram. She was previously the founder and managing partner at Gradient Ventures. She was the VP Engineering at Google for 14 years. Anna's favorite book: Books she reads with her daughters as part of their family book club (00:01) Introduction & AI Infra 101 (01:11) Budget Breakdown: Training vs…

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  Gradient Ventures Founder Anna Patterson

  October 08, 2024 · 📺 Sama

    Key Points From This Episode: • She shares her professional journey that eventually led to the founding of Gradient Ventures. • How Anna would contrast AI Winter to the standard hype cycles that exist. • Her thoughts on how the web and mobile sectors were under-hyped. • Those who decide if something falls out of favor; according to Anna. • How Anna navigates hype cycles. • Her process for evaluating early-stage AI companies.  • How to assess whether someone is a tourist or truly committed to something. • Approaching problems and discerning whether AI is the right a…

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  Founders Journey Panel | MIT 2023

  May 11, 2023 · 📺 Imagination in Action

  Anna Patterson, Managing Partner at Gradient Ventures Brian Halligan, Co-Founder at HubSpot, Co-Founder at Propeller VC Steve Papa, Founder and CEO at Parallel Wireless Dileep George. Co-founder & CTO at Vicarious AI ====== ✌️ Subscribe! http://bit.ly/ImaginationInAction-You... 👉 More info: https://www.imaginationinaction.co/ 🐦 Join the conversation! #ImaginationInAction ====== About Forging the Future of Business with AI: On April 13th, AI Imaginators, Explorers, and Pioneers gathered at MIT for a breakthrough event featuring the most innovative minds leveraging the power of AI. Att…

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  How to Avoid Typical Mistakes AI/ML Companies Make

  February 15, 2022 · 📺 The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)

  🎙 Full Podcast: https://sfelc.com/podcasts/aiml-start... Anna Patterson discusses some common mistakes that she sees AI/ML companies and founders make and how these mistakes can be avoided. This is the first episode of our new series “Engineering Founders” featuring software pioneer Anna Patterson (Founder & Managing Partner @ Gradient Ventures) who shares with us emerging trends & opportunities in AI/ML! We cover how to spot emerging trends, typical mistakes AI/ML companies & founders make, how product market fit/scaling is different vs. traditional software companies AND how to test and va…

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  Differences in Scaling Between AI/ML and Trad Software

  February 15, 2022 · 📺 The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)

  🎙 Full Podcast: https://sfelc.com/podcasts/aiml-start... Anna Patterson breaks down the key differences between scaling an AI/ML company and a more traditional software company. This is the first episode of our new series “Engineering Founders” featuring software pioneer Anna Patterson (Founder & Managing Partner @ Gradient Ventures) who shares with us emerging trends & opportunities in AI/ML! We cover how to spot emerging trends, typical mistakes AI/ML companies & founders make, how product market fit/scaling is different vs. traditional software companies AND how to test and validate ideas…

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  How to Spot Emerging Trends in the AI/ML Space

  February 14, 2022 · 📺 The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)

  🎙 Full Podcast: https://sfelc.com/podcasts/aiml-start... Anna Patterson shares her secrets for picking up on trends within the AI/ML space and how to sort out the noise from the signal. This is the first episode of our new series “Engineering Founders” featuring software pioneer Anna Patterson (Founder & Managing Partner @ Gradient Ventures) who shares with us emerging trends & opportunities in AI/ML! We cover how to spot emerging trends, typical mistakes AI/ML companies & founders make, how product market fit/scaling is different vs. traditional software companies AND how to test and valida…

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  What Will Be the Most Valuable Companies Centered Around ML?

  February 14, 2022 · 📺 The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)

  🎙 Full Podcast: https://sfelc.com/podcasts/aiml-start... Anna Patterson talks about Streamlit, an AI/ML company centered around streamlining web app creation. This is the first episode of our new series “Engineering Founders” featuring software pioneer Anna Patterson (Founder & Managing Partner @ Gradient Ventures) who shares with us emerging trends & opportunities in AI/ML! We cover how to spot emerging trends, typical mistakes AI/ML companies & founders make, how product market fit/scaling is different vs. traditional software companies AND how to test and validate ideas in the early stage…

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  Deep Learning & Machine Learning With Source Code

  February 12, 2022 · 📺 The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)

  🎙 Full Podcast: https://sfelc.com/podcasts/aiml-start... Anna Patterson talks about deep learning and the possibilities that it creates. She also sheds some light on how machine learning can use source code to create new features. This is the first episode of our new series “Engineering Founders” featuring software pioneer Anna Patterson (Founder & Managing Partner @ Gradient Ventures) who shares with us emerging trends & opportunities in AI/ML! We cover how to spot emerging trends, typical mistakes AI/ML companies & founders make, how product market fit/scaling is different vs. traditional…

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  The Biggest Fallacy in AI/ML Right Now

  February 11, 2022 · 📺 The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)

  🎙 Full Podcast: https://sfelc.com/podcasts/aiml-start... Anna Patterson calls out some of the biggest fallacies about AI/ML and offers valuable insights to engineering leaders from inside the space. This is the first episode of our new series “Engineering Founders” featuring software pioneer Anna Patterson (Founder & Managing Partner @ Gradient Ventures) who shares with us emerging trends & opportunities in AI/ML! We cover how to spot emerging trends, typical mistakes AI/ML companies & founders make, how product market fit/scaling is different vs. traditional software companies AND how to t…

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  Emerging Trends in AI/ML

  February 11, 2022 · 📺 The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)

  🎙 Full Podcast: https://sfelc.com/podcasts/aiml-start... Anna Patterson talks about some of the trends that she has noticed in the AI/ML space and discusses the implications they could have for engineering leaders. This is the first episode of our new series “Engineering Founders” featuring software pioneer Anna Patterson (Founder & Managing Partner @ Gradient Ventures) who shares with us emerging trends & opportunities in AI/ML! We cover how to spot emerging trends, typical mistakes AI/ML companies & founders make, how product market fit/scaling is different vs. traditional software compani…

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  Anna’s Background Scaling Complex Systems

  February 10, 2022 · 📺 The Engineering Leadership Community (ELC)

  🎙 Full Podcast: https://sfelc.com/podcasts/aiml-start... Anna Patterson talks about her story up until this point and shares some of her formative experiences that have led to her getting into the AI/ML space. This is the first episode of our new series “Engineering Founders” featuring software pioneer Anna Patterson (Founder & Managing Partner @ Gradient Ventures) who shares with us emerging trends & opportunities in AI/ML! We cover how to spot emerging trends, typical mistakes AI/ML companies & founders make, how product market fit/scaling is different vs. traditional software companies AN…

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  MIT AI Conference 2018: The Investors Shaping The Future Of Industries

  May 28, 2019 · 📺 MIT Club of Northern California

  Hannah Kuchler - SF Correspondent - Financial Times Aileen Lee - Founder & Partner - Cowboy Ventures Rebecca Lynn - Co-Founder & General Partner - Canvas Ventures Anna Patterson - Founder & Managing Partner - Gradient Ventures Ann Miura-Ko - Co-Founding Partner - Floodgate

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