About this episode
Gorkem Yurtseven is the co-founder and CTO of fal, the generative media platform powering the next wave of image, video, and audio applications. In less than two years, fal has scaled from $2M to over $100M in ARR, serving over 2 million developers and more than 300 enterprises, including Adobe, Canva, and Shopify. In this conversation, Gorkem shares the inside story of fal's pivot into explosive growth, the technical and cultural philosophies driving its success, and his predictions for the future of AI-generated media.
In today's episode, we discuss:
How fal pivoted from data infrastructure to generative inference
fal’s explosive year and how they scaled
Why "generative media" is a greenfield new market
fal's unique hiring philosophy and lean
