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Inside fal’s $1.65B Series E & F Led by Sequoia & Bessemer

fal has raised $1.65B in a combined Series E and Series F, with Sequoia Capital leading the E and Bessemer Venture Partners leading the F. Its founders see generative media as 1 of only 3 product market fits in AI, alongside search and coding agents. Burkay Gür (Co-Founder and CEO) and Gorkem Yurtseven (Co-Founder and CTO) started fal in 2021 after…

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  1. Why Is Generative Media One of Only Three Product-market Fits in AI? at 3:25

    fal co-founders Burkay Gür and Gorkem Yurtseven say AI has three product-market fits: search, coding agents, and generative media. Full answer

  2. Why Did Fal's Image Business Come Back? at 5:03

    fal co-founders Burkay Gür and Gorkem Yurtseven say about half of fal's revenue now comes from video models and half from image models. Full answer

  3. Who Pays $5 for a Five-second AI Video? at 6:54

    fal co-founders Burkay Gür and Gorkem Yurtseven say a five-second video priced at five dollars still found essentially infinite demand. Full answer

  4. How Did Fal Move From Data Infrastructure to Image Models? at 13:40

    fal co-founders Burkay Gür and Gorkem Yurtseven say fal started in 2021 as a compute company, before the current AI wave. Full answer

  5. Why Did Coinbase Make Candidates Pass a Crypto Quiz? at 19:08

    Burkay Gür says Coinbase made candidates pass a crypto quiz posted on Reddit before anyone on the team would take a phone call. Full answer

  6. Why Does Fal Have No Pure Managers? at 27:53

    fal co-founders Burkay Gür and Gorkem Yurtseven say fal has no pure managers and does not plan to add them. Full answer

  7. Why Does Fal Send Engineers Home on Weekends? at 32:34

    fal co-founders Burkay Gür and Gorkem Yurtseven say fal looks for agency, hunger, and humility in engineers. Full answer

  8. Why Can't a New AI Model Buy Its Own Inference Compute? at 37:54

    fal co-founders Burkay Gür and Gorkem Yurtseven say a lab with a new model has to plan inference compute before the launch. Full answer

  9. How Did Fal Get Its Name? at 43:59

    fal co-founders Burkay Gür and Gorkem Yurtseven say fal is the initials of features and labels, two old machine-learning terms from before the current AI wave. Full answer

  10. Has AI Taken Hollywood Jobs Yet? at 49:08

    fal co-founders Burkay Gür and Gorkem Yurtseven say AI has had zero impact on Hollywood labor so far. Full answer

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