Episode 200 Steven Coochin, Chief Innovation Officer at Lilypad

Fireside with Voxgig

It’s episode TWO HUNDRED! And what a two hundred episodes they’ve been, from public speaking, to Developer Advocacy, to our recent focus on the API space, it’s been an incredible journey, and we want to thank you our listeners above all, for sticking with us, and inspiring us to stay curious, and keep seeking out those in the DevRel world and beyond, so we can all learn from them together. Today’s guest couldn’t be more appropriate, as we feel the wonderful Steven Coochin sums up so much of what we do here on the Fireside podcast, from his bold ideas, to his empathetic outlook and his staunch commitment to an open source world. Steven is the chief innovation officer at Lilypad. A returning guest of the podcast, he joins us with quite the update on his endeavours. Lilypad, as Steven describes it, is the way he and his team intend to democratise AI, doing off-chain compute, with on-chain guarantees. I*if you've ever dabbled in creating an AI product (and we have), you’ll know the costs associated can be prohibitively expensive, due in large part to the heavy duty GPUs required. Well Lilypad acts as a sort of Airbnb for GPUs, leaving you free to build your product, instead of messing around with cloud providers who can barely support their own systems, let alone yours. They’ve recently exploded in popularity, and Steven talks us through his whiplash of seeing their user number collect a few extra zeroes at the end. And of course, it wouldn’t be a Fireside with Voxgig episode without Richard and Steven diving into the DevRel aspects of his work, and how integral an open source model is to the heart of Lilypad. Thank you again to all of our listeners, and lastly to our wonderful guests. Here’s to a hundred more! Reach out to Steven here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/developersteve/ Check out Lilypad here: https://blog.lilypadnetwork.org/ Find out more and listen to previous podcasts here: https://www.voxgig.com/podcast Subscribe to our newsletter for weekly updates and information about upcoming meetups: https://voxgig.substack.com/ Join the Dublin DevRel Meetup group here: www.devrelmeetup.com