From 2016 to 2018 Chris Nell and I owned a Machine Learning Consulting company called Tideline Data. We spun out of our Artificial Intelligence group at DeviantArt and provided AI services for a number of Vancouver clients including BuildDirect and Widerfunnel but also kept a contract with DeviantArt going. Soon after, DeviantArt was purchased by Wix and hired us back to re-form an Artificial Intelligence team for the company here in Vancouver. Running a company was an interesting experience for us - I don’t think either Chris and I are cut out to be good sales people, at least in the broad sense of that job description. Still, running our own tech stacks with complete freedom but tight budgetary constraints taught us a lot about efficiently scaling cloud setups for machine learning.