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  1. Sequoia Capital28 min

    Post-Training Is How You Keep Your Taste | Fireworks CEO Lin Qiao

    Lin Qiao, Linh Nguyen, Raz

    Fireworks CEO Linh Nguyen advocates for a strategic industry shift from relying on rented APIs to owning intelligence through deep model customization, enabling companies to preserve unique business judgment while reducing inference costs by five to ten times. This approach utilizes a structured lifecycle of data curation, fine-tuning, and serving loops to transition from generic prompting to specialized models, as demonstrated by success stories like Cursor and niche vertical leaders in healthcare and security. Ultimately, post-training is positioned as the critical mechanism for startups to scale after product-market fit by converting proprietary user data into unclonable domain expertise before high API expenses threaten unit economics.