Scaling Under Fire: The 1,000-A100 Bet, the Sora Moment and 'Just Figure It Out'

Runway's engineering character was forged in moments of pressure: betting on a 1,000-GPU cluster as a Series B startup, building Gen-2 from a weekend hack, and rebuilding its training stack in three months after OpenAI's Sora. This episode mines those stories for the mindset Runway rewards and the behavioral examples you should bring.