Dev Shop
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 
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4 statements about Dev Shop, every show
Lieberman: Modern AI dev shops use intelligence arbitrage, not labor arbitrage
“It's basically if traditional dev orgs or dev shops are labor arbitrage, we're intelligence arbitraging.”
Seibel: Using dev shops instead of technical co-founders ruins startups
“I couldn't find tech and co-founder, so I just moved to the next challenge. I hired some engineers, or I got a dev shop, and, like, nothing will keep me Well, hold me back. And what's so sad about that way of thinking about it is that like, one, the percentage…”
Ingram: Traditional dev shops create lack of control and team misalignment
“And so but you know, that comes with a lot of disadvantages, like, you know, a lot, lack of control. You don't know you're hiring. They're not, you know, they're not like in your team infrastructure. They don't really understand the purpose of the products the…”
Volodarsky: Dev Shops Often Pitch Senior Engineers but Assign Junior Staff
“We, it's a little bit harder on the vetting side because you also have to vet before vetting a developer, you have to vet a dev shop because a lot of dev shops are very shady. You know, you need to make sure that there's nothing going on inside the weather tha…”