Libbie Frost

Happy 15 interviews on @creativecpress!

Creative Conviction is a series of conversations with people who are exceptional at their craft. We talk to founders, developers, designers, studio owners and artists about how they think, where they find inspiration, and how they make decisions.

Technology is changing how everything gets made. Our mission is to understand what that means for creativity, and help more people find their own creative path by learning from the best.

We’re just getting started, with more interviews and more ways to bring this community together. Tell us who we should feature next!

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I went to @NotreDame to talk to undergrads about how vc investing works & current trends, opportunities at startups, and starting companies.

This group was so talented, and it’s clear they’re itching for top startup experience - so if you’re at a company that’s bullish on smart, hungry/ hard-working, high EQ interns or new grads, message me so I can help connect you!

Also, if you know a current college sophomore, share the bvp summer analyst app w them (link below). It just dropped this week and deadline is nov 30. This is truly one of the most special opportunities to start in venture so young, I couldn’t recommend it enough!

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A few months ago Surya (@kickingkeys), a designer at Websim (@websim_ai) in New York, posted a project that went viral: “You can just RL a coding model to paint with javascript btw.”

We sat down with Surya and were shocked to learn that he only wrote his first line of code in 2024 and had not heard of RL before January. We wanted to know how someone with that background goes from zero to training models in under two years, and whether anyone else could do that too.

Our top 2 lessons from Surya:
- Anyone can learn how these systems work if you are curious and willing to put in the time.
- The best way to learn is to spend less time asking what AI can do to serve you and more time asking what it can do to serve the people around you.

Some of Surya’s recent projects include training models to paint, setting up AI for a coffee shop owner so he has more time to write, and having agents watch him in the art studio and turn the footage into a reality-TV-style story.

Surya is doing this for the love of the game.

Read our full interview in the thread!

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im excited we've already interviewed so many of these teams!! more excited for even more conversations on this topic creativeconviction.ai/#interviews