Martin Casado Reflects on Three Years Building World Labs With Fei-Fei Li
JenniferHli · x · 2026-09-29
a16z partner Martin Casado penned a rare retrospective on helping Fei-Fei Li found World Labs nearly three years ago: being at the founding table, watching the first git commits, seeing rough early results that hinted at something greater, contributing to open source, and watching new model architectures push state of the art across multiple areas. He describes the team as spinning "magic from nothing again and again." Industry figures including Jennifer Li congratulated the team on what they call a once-in-a-lifetime founding story.
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