Ep. 60: Ronak Malde, Trajectory CEO and Former DeepMind Researcher

Ronak Malde is the CEO of Trajectory (trajectory.ai), where he's working on bringing continual learning to enterprises. Before Trajectory, he worked on research at DeepMind and trained the SWE-1 model at Windsurf.Delta Institute (deltainstitutes.org) supports exceptional researchers and engineers, from academia to industry and beyond. They host technical events to bring great people together, a podcast that gives industry/academic leaders a platform to share their experiences, a small fellows program that builds a tight-knit community of exceptional people, and a grant program that provides compute/mentorship for research projects.Timestamps:00:00 Why RL Doesnt Scale00:40 Founder Story Trajectory01:16 Continual Learning Vision02:33 Product Signal As Reward03:47 Roadmap Three Stages05:02 Self Distillation Explained07:17 Building The SDK09:21 Customer Onboarding Example11:43 Control Plane Improvements12:50 Competition And Infrastructure15:03 Research Meets Product17:35 Self Serve Vs Services19:55 Leaving Labs To Found24:10 Hiring And Team Culture27:45 Scaling To Enterprises