Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth — The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI)

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The 100-person AI lab that became Anthropic and Google's secret weapon | Edwin Chen (Surge AI)

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Edwin Chen is the founder and CEO of Surge AI, the company that teaches AI what’s good vs. what’s bad, powering frontier labs with elite data, environments, and evaluations. Surge surpassed $1 billion in revenue with under 100 employees last year, completely bootstrapped—the fastest company in history to reach this…

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