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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Electron comes up on Latent Space, Sourcery, Acquired, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast, Top Founders
Inside Rocket Lab: How Sir Peter Beck Is Building Neutron’s Engines | Tour 02
- ▶ 0:09 Sir Peter Beck This is an Electron.
- ▶ 4:33 Sir Peter Beck So one of the things that we pioneered early on with Electron was our, was our, was our, was our, was our, uh, three D printing of, um, of engines.
- ▶ 12:33 Sir Peter Beck And whereas, you know, Rutherford for Electron, because it's a single use engine, like its qualification or its, you know, acceptance test is, is like five minutes.
- ▶ 14:16 Sir Peter Beck Well, so before we go over and have a look at the Archimedes engines, um, uh, no tour would be complete without, like, an Electron rocket, so I figure you have to at least have a look at that.
- ▶ 25:47 Sir Peter Beck So, um, these are the engines that, that go on the back of, uh, the Electron rocket. 2 times in the scene
RKLB Factory Tour: Satellites, Spacecraft & Mission Control
- ▶ 0:09 Sir Peter Beck The Electron rocket was under a hundred million dollars, and 80 people put the first rocket into orbit.
- ▶ 6:30 Sir Peter Beck Um, you know, for example, the Electron rocket, I think it was under a hundred million dollars and 80 people put the first rocket into orbit.
⏭️ Forward Deployed: Voice AI on what works in 2026
- ▶ 35:47 unnamed speaker It's called Electron.
How Rocket Lab CEO Sir Peter Beck Is Building a Multi-Generational Space Company
- ▶ 0:39 Sir Peter Beck The nose cone shape of Electron, it's not actually the optimum aerodynamic shape.
- ▶ 3:25 Sir Peter Beck Well, it doesn't feel like anything's changed because if you take our first real product being the Electron launch vehicle, everything in that launch vehicle we design and we make.
- ▶ 10:17 Sir Peter Beck Um, so there's the, there's the, um, Electron Factory in New Zealand.
- ▶ 19:24 Sir Peter Beck How, how late was Electron to the market?
- ▶ 20:08 Molly O'Shea You walked us through Electron.
- ▶ 30:48 Sir Peter Beck So, um, uh, essentially, uh, you know, obviously we've got three launch sites, um, for, for the Electron vehicle and, uh, you know, our government customers, um, mainly around the haste missions, where we're really keen to see, um, you… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:37 Sir Peter Beck Um, so the hungry, the nose cone shape of Electron is that shape.
Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code’s Prompt · Y Combinator
- ▶ 20:43 Boris Cherny And it's built using Electron. 3 times in the scene
GPT-5.6 Reactions, Phoebe Gates’ Phia Drama, Hollywood Chases Internet Horror | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 11:05 John Coogan The old ChatGPT app as ChatGPT classic, but a lot of people don't like that because the Codex app is written in Electron, which means it's a bunch of like web views, web browsers effectively, as opposed to, uh, the ChatGPT app, which was…
Rocket Lab Enters SpaceX Arena, Meta’s Prediction Market, America’s Tech Wishlist | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 1:33 John Coogan It now designs satellites and aerospace components, serves the defense primes, has the second most launched U.S. rocket annually, the Electron rocket, and is currently developing a reusable medium lift launch vehicle
Why Impulse Raised $500M to Move Things in Space | President & COO Eric Romo · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg: Claude Cowork, Mythos, and the SaaS Extinction
- ▶ 46:00 Felix Rieseberg I was working on this something called electron, which is like a cross platform.
Extreme Harness Engineering: 1M LOC, 1B toks/day, 0% human code or review — Ryan Lopopolo, OpenAI
- ▶ 7:06 Ryan Lopopolo React, Electron interface, uh, single app sort of thing.
- ▶ 22:00 unnamed speaker You mentioned, uh, so you, this is primarily a, it's like a one million line of code code base, uh, Electron app, uh, but it manages its own services as well. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:29 Ryan Lopopolo Uh, there was one point where we had wired Playwright directly up to the Electron app, uh, with MCP.
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 4:21 Felix Rieseberg Like, I think a similar thing happened, a similar thing happened to me about 10 years ago, like maybe 12 years ago when I was at Microsoft, and we started working on, on Electron and like browser-based technologies and cross-platform…
- ▶ 11:14 Alessio Fanelli I started building something in on Electron since you're here. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:07 Felix Rieseberg People were like, they often are in the into debating the merits of Electron and whether or not we should be building software in JavaScript, yes or no.
- ▶ 1:15:10 Felix Rieseberg But in terms of the building blocks that I'm interested in, the Electron is probably by far the most popular thing I ever built. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:16:02 Shawn Wang Just quick tangent on Electron, because I always wonder this, uh, have you looked at Tori? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:15 Felix Rieseberg I think the EGI moment I'm kind of waiting for is at what point are we going to say Electron is probably no longer necessary because you can just build fully native apps. 2 times in the scene
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 48:56 Boris Cherny Um, and, uh, Felix and the team, and Felix was an early electron contributor.
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 39:24 Abhinav Asthana Uh, eventually we built our own platform based on Electron, and we have kind of like, you know, we, we do distribute our own apps.
Cluely Raises $15 Million From a16z | Roy Lee, Founder & CEO · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
Zed Agents — with Zed Cofounders Nathan Sobo & Antonio Scandurra
- ▶ 0:57 Nathan Sobo We created the Atom editor previously, and as part of Atom, the shell around Atom, Electron, was spun out into its own thing, and Electron is what VS Code is built on and a bunch of other apps. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:55 unnamed speaker Just, just as a side note, because I, I just, you know, every time I run into someone from the Electron background, I have to ask, uh, have you looked at Tori?
Inside Varda’s Space Factory | Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund & Varda · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 21:57 Delian Asparouhov You know, obviously Rocket Labs really succeeded with their Electron, you know, sort of platform.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 34:00 Brendan Eich We have a lot of our users of Slack at Brave use the browser to load Slack as a web app instead of loading this bloated electron app that Slack has been slowly maintaining.
- ▶ 1:01:11 Brendan Eich We use the Electron framework when we switched from a private version based on Mozilla's Gecko engine to Chromium Blink, and using Electron was a mistake.
- ▶ 1:02:02 Brendan Eich Until we really did that rebasing on the front end of Chrome, we were paying a growing maintenance cost on all this electron forkage, and our users were suffering because it wasn't fully Chrome.
- ▶ 1:04:22 Brendan Eich And that's when we switched to electron, but that had its own costs.
VaporWare Charges $25k to Build SaaS MVP, $1.2m 2019 Revenue
639: Fastest Growing Canadian Software Company: $200k to $20M in Revenue from 2010 to 2015 with CEO Tobyn Sowden
- ▶ 7:32 Tobin Sowden So the idea behind shift originally was, uh, electron the framework, it's, it's, it's really starting to become something we're seeing, you know, applications like, uh, 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:16 Tobin Sowden It has SDKs for, uh, Windows, Linux, uh, and Mac, as well as some unique ones, uh, that are based on JavaScript for things like Electron, as well as, uh, extensions.