David Ulevitch

14 statements across 6 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jan 9, 2020 by David Ulevitch · said 8 times in 5 episodes since 2023 · across every show →

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Jan 9, 2020 positive
Insight
Ulevitch: Developers automate repetitive tasks due to constructive laziness
“I will say that I think developers are unfailingly the laziest people I know. And I say that as a compliment. Anytime they have to do work that has to be done over and over again, or they have to use a component that they think they might reuse again in the fu…”
David Ulevitch Jan 9, 2020 ▶ 5:44 We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
Jan 9, 2020 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ulevitch: Non-technical workers are starting to think and work like developers
“And what gets me excited is that I think we're all starting to think and work like developers.”
David Ulevitch Jan 9, 2020 ▶ 1:00 We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
Jan 9, 2020 positive
Insight
Ulevitch: Speech and brain-computer interfaces are fundamentally command lines
“But all of those kinds of new features coming out, they essentially turn something into a command line. They translate your speech or your thought into a command line. So the sooner that we embrace and adopt command line interfaces, the sooner we'll be ready t…”
David Ulevitch Jan 9, 2020 ▶ 8:25 We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
Jan 9, 2020 positive
Insight
Ulevitch: Treating org structure as code unlocks better growth planning
“Really, by treating the organization as code and leveraging these developer paradigms, you're able to answer these questions that organizations today that are trying to be more thoughtful about their planning and their growth are asking.”
David Ulevitch Jan 9, 2020 ▶ 11:09 We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
Jan 9, 2020
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ulevitch: Top Cisco sales reps routinely avoided using Salesforce
“The best sales reps at Cisco who had the biggest deals never put them into Salesforce.”
David Ulevitch Jan 9, 2020 ▶ 12:14 We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
Jan 9, 2020
Assertion Contradicted
Ulevitch: No software exists to optimize sales commission plans using historical data
“Like when I'm helping somebody with a sales commission plan, there's no software that's looking back in time at all the previous sales commission plans and all the performance telling me, hey, if you just turn these knobs, you might improve revenue.”
David Ulevitch Jan 9, 2020 ▶ 5:23 We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
Jan 9, 2020 positive
Insight
Ulevitch defines low-latency communication as instant human-to-computer instruction
“This is, to me, really simply the art of communicating an idea in your head as quickly as possible into the computer as an instruction.”
David Ulevitch Jan 9, 2020 ▶ 3:41 We Don't All Need to Learn to Code
Feb 8, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ulevitch: Marginalized community leaders are top advocates for Flock Safety
“Some of the biggest advocates for flock safety in communities with high crime rates are those community leaders from more marginalized communities.”
David Ulevitch Feb 8, 2024 ▶ 16:42 Drones, Data, and Deterrence: Technology's Role in Public Safety
Mar 18, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ulevitch: China is sole nuclear reactor bidder in market US cannot enter
“Right now for instance, there's a country that, that very much would like nuclear reactors for energy in the US is not allowed to sell into that country, and currently the only other country bidding on a reactor is China.”
David Ulevitch Mar 18, 2024 ▶ 46:32 A Nuclear Comeback: Are New Reactors the Answer?
Mar 17, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Ulevitch: Early American Dynamism startups emerged after Google left Project Maven
“You know, even in some of the origins where some of the AD companies started, it was after Google bailed out of Project Maven, and people in Silicon Valley were really trying to figure out what was important, how do I want to spend my time, and that, that, tho…”
David Ulevitch (Dee) Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 3:36 Why American Dynamism Is Just Getting Started
Nov 19, 2025
Assertion Supported
Ulevitch: Flock Safety's Early Hardware Was a Cell Phone Camera
“So Flox Safety was basically a camera a cell phone camera in a box with power to it and an LTE connection.”
David Ulevitch Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 26:01 Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
Nov 19, 2025 positive
Insight
Ulevitch: Defense Hardware Allows Better Inventory Management Than Consumer Hardware
“When you do government hardware or hardware for the Pentagon or across enterprises, it's a much different sales cycle and process. You can better manage your inventory and your pacing and your hardware spend.”
David Ulevitch Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 26:55 Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
Nov 19, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Ulevitch: Early Defense Startups Paired Commodity Hardware With Advanced Software
“A lot of the American Dynamism companies, at least the early sort of innings of where they started, a lot of them were using off-the-shelf commodity hardware with really advanced software.”
David Ulevitch Nov 19, 2025 ▶ 25:51 Ben Horowitz & Marc Andreessen: Why Silicon Valley Turned Against Defense (And How We're Fixing It)
Mar 13, 2026 negative
Assertion Partly supported
Ulevitch: Chinese sanctions blocked drone maker Skydio from critical supply chain components
“We work with a company called Skydio, and they were sanctioned by China, and, ah, you know, we usually hear stories about how companies are, you know, sanctioned by the United States from doing business here, but it actually, if you're a company that's an impo…”
David Ulevitch Mar 13, 2026 ▶ 4:44 Emil Michael: The Department of War Is Moving Faster Than Silicon Valley on AI | The a16z Show
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