software developer

also referred to as: software developers

8 statements across 8 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Jan 2, 2019 by Alex Rampell · across every show →

Everything said about software developer, oldest first

Jan 2, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Software makers rely on 1% of users for 100% of revenue
“Every major software developer, every major kind of intangible goods maker had this exact same problem, where a hundred percent of their revenue comes from one percent of their users.”
Alex Rampell Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 8:06 a16z Podcast | Money, Risk, and Software
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Feaster: The future of innovation is non-technical people coding
“The future of innovation is not having more developers code. The future of innovation is getting Non-technical people to be coding.”
Michel Feaster Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 27:45 a16z Podcast | Creating a Category, from Pricing to Positioning
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Opinion
Ehrensvärd: Swedes are among the world's best software developers
“Yes, and that's also why Swedes are some of the best Software developers on the planet because they have the ability to work together, but also question each other.”
Stina Ehrensvärd Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 28:44 a16z Podcast | The Hard Things about Security
Sep 10, 2025 negative
Assertion Supported
Dixon: California AI bill would have effectively killed open source
“California had a bill that would have created unlimited downstream liability for software developers, which would have effectively killed open source.”
Chris Dixon Sep 10, 2025 ▶ 38:23 Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
Sep 27, 2025 positive
Insight
Lazzarin: Crypto's core purpose is protecting consumers from software developers
“The whole point of crypto is actually to protect consumers from software developers.”
Eddie Lazzarin Sep 27, 2025 ▶ 9:16 The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
Oct 23, 2025 positive
Insight
Andreessen: Expert developers routinely resist higher-level abstractions as sloppy
“And so there, there's always this tendency, you know, for the pros to be, you know, look down the nose and say, you know, the new people are being, you know, basically sloppy. They don't understand what's happening. You know, they don't really understand the m…”
Marc Andreessen Oct 23, 2025 ▶ 6:18 Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
Nov 5, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Acharya: There are only 20 million software developers globally
“And software has just been so restrictive because there's only twenty million developers in the world.”
Anish Acharya Nov 5, 2025 ▶ 12:09 Seeing The Future from AI Companions to Personal Software
Aug 11, 2026 bullish
Opinion
Tan: AI and vibe coding multiply developer productivity by hundreds
“What's happening right now with vibe coding and agentic coding literally any given person could be 400 of that person, like, from two years, like, even, like, nine months ago you can be a multiple of yourself.”
Garry Tan Aug 11, 2026 ▶ 14:56 Garry Tan: New Rules for Founders
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