JavaScript
2 statements across 2 episodes · 0 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Nov 1, 2017 by Paul Buchheit · said 25 times in 17 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (11), Amjad Masad (5), Daniel Dines (2), Paul Buchheit (1), Mark Suster (1), Guillermo Rauch (1), Emmett Shear (1), Daniel Gross (1)
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2026 3 mentions in 1 episode
2024 2 mentions in 1 episode
2023 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode
2020 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research
- 20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- every mention in 2020, scene by scene →
2018 1 mention in 1 episode
2017 13 mentions in 9 episodes 1 per episode
- 20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- 20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- 20VC: What Larry Paige, Mary Meeker and Ben Horowitz All Have In Common, Why You Have To Build A Movement Not A Brand & Why This Really Is A Great Time To Be An Entrepreneur with Joey Zwillinger, Co-Founder @ Allbirds
- 20VC: Jason Calacanis on The 4 Questions Investors Must Ask Founders, Whether YC Have Scaled Their Process Successfully & Why Early Founder Liquidity Is Good Not Bad
- 20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- 20VC: How To Run The Perfect Fundraising Process, Why Time Kills All Deals & Why You Have To Get VCs Out Of The Board Room with Wayne Chang, Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
- 20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan
- 20VC: The First ICO Blockchain Incubator Ever, Why ICO's Will Change The World of Venture As We Know It & How The M&A Market Will Respond To ICO's with Mike, Jones, Co-Founder @ Science Inc
- 1 more episode that year, every mention in 2017 →
Everything said about JavaScript, oldest first
Nov 1, 2017 neutral
Buchheit: Building early Gmail entirely in JavaScript was highly controversial at Google
“Again, with like Gmail early on, one of the most internally controversial decisions that we had made was to build the whole thing in JavaScript. And I had lots and lots of people tell me that it was never going to work, that it had been tried before, that, you…”
Apr 25, 2026 neutral
Masad: AI vibe coding will mirror JavaScript by capturing low-risk software domains
“JavaScript is the original sort of vibe language, because JavaScript didn't have types. You could like run into errors. But the reason why we adopted JavaScript is because web software was not going to kill anyone. Your Gmail, if someone pushes a bug to Gmail,…”