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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Factory comes up on 20VC, Latent Space, Mixergy, the Startup Ideas Podcast, Sourcery
Should American Enterprises Work With Open-Source Chinese Models? | Only 10% of Neo-labs survive
- ▶ 0:16 Harry Stebbings Today, we have CTO and co-founder of Factory, Eno Reyes. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:04 Harry Stebbings I want factory.
- ▶ 29:28 Harry Stebbings You know, you obviously have a routing product within Factory. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 32:20 Harry Stebbings Does a continuous learning model help or hurt Factory's business? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:39 Harry Stebbings To come through acquiring companies and bringing their founders and teams into Factory. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:24:40 Eno Reyes And that new system is going to look very unfamiliar, and so it's not so much a one-to-one labor mapping as it is a entirely new development methodology, and that's something they're really only hearing from us right now, and I think it…
⏭️ Forward Deployed: Voice AI on what works in 2026
- ▶ 1:47 unnamed speaker So we brought on companies like Factory, Cognition, Composio, Soundgrep.
The AI Bubble WILL Burst | Should we be fearful of Chinese Open-Source | Jerry Murdock
- ▶ 1:07:36 Jerry Murdock I think, um, Benchmark, while they missed Anthropic and OpenAI, they've done amazing with, you know, Factory and a bunch of other great ones that we've talked about.
The Opportunity for Global Founders
- ▶ 9:04 Gabriel Vasquez So like, we can give the example of Victor Cardenas from Slash, or Anna Reyes from Factory.
The Billion Dollar AI Lab Founder Who Sees The Future First | Karan Goel, Founder & CEO of Cartesia
- ▶ 9:17 Karan Goel From a couple of funds like Factory and Conviction, um, and, um, you know, um, Lightspeed as well was part of that.
Mercor Head of Product on Revenue Concentration from Frontier Labs
- ▶ 19:43 Harry Stebbings In the long term, products become more and more sophisticated that they're able to do it themselves, because Matan from Factory said to me, you know what?
Most Valuable Skill of 2026: Managing AI Agents
- ▶ 8:34 Ryan Carson You've got factory, uh, as another one as well.
- ▶ 35:28 Ryan Carson I would say factory, AMP, all of the independent agent labs understand, like, we, our customers have a limit. 3 times in the scene
Should the US Ban Chinese Open-Source Models | OpenRouter's Chance To Sell | Stripe Buying PayPal
- ▶ 1:06:46 Harry Stebbings Like we did factory at the one and a half round, and I think, yes, that was a worse deal than the 300 round, but the 300 round they had next to no customers, very little product market fit, and well done to those investors.
AMD, Starcloud, Coatue..10 Hot Takes From The Biggest Names in AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 9:23 Molly O'Shea Well, we just had Matan from factory on
- ▶ 20:33 Molly O'Shea We have Matan of Factory. 4 times in the scene
Podcast Crossover: AIE, AGI, frontier lab strategy with @matthew_berman and @swyxtv
- ▶ 25:16 Matthew Berman So the cursors, the cognitions of the factories of the world are, isn't this kind of like prime time for them?
Nikesh Arora on the Frontier Model Problem: Breadth vs Depth | The Future of Token Costs · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 44:23 Harry Stebbings And then I've had Matan come on the show, our friend from Factory, and say, if you need FDs, you have a shit product. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI vs Anthropic vs Open-Source | Token Maxing, AI Hangovers & The Coming ROI Reckoning · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:08 Harry Stebbings Meet Matan Grinberg, CEO and co-founder of Factory. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:11 Matan Grinberg I'm probably going to say, you know what, for my resource allocation, I'm going to pay someone to go and do that for us because at factory, our core competency is not that the CEO goes and gets lunch for everyone.
- ▶ 12:05 Matan Grinberg The bare case against factory is if one model provider gets significantly better than all of the others. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:01 Matan Grinberg What product is at factory? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:29 Matan Grinberg So even at factory, we have this now where there are people who will own the marketing copy if they're going to be releasing something.
- ▶ 39:25 Matan Grinberg Where their job goes from, I mean, part of our name, our name is Factory. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:04 unnamed speaker But in the meantime, I, like, had already known about Factory.
- ▶ 59:32 Matan Grinberg Through, so, one of the best hires that I've ever made at Factory was, ah, this woman, Francesca. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:05:20 Matan Grinberg Um, but then the problem is, now you're asking your engineers to use 10 different tools, or you can use someone like Factory, where you can use one tool, and you can kind of decide, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:48 Matan Grinberg To be fair, the first year at factory, I would drink a whiskey every night, and my argument was, and you'd probably agree with this, was like, for robustness, like if you want to be a robust human, you can't have like one drink, you know,…
Claude Fable 5 is BACK
- ▶ 7:55 Greg Isenberg You're going to want to use something like factory.ai. 2 times in the scene
Inside Legora's Tech Stack: Why Token Maxing is Failing Enterprise Startups | Legora CTO · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 37:17 unnamed speaker I respectfully disagree, and that's why I actually think both Cognition and Factory will do very well, because they're model independent, but if you...
Why Anthropic Are Causing a Comp Crisis & Why You’d Never Hire From Salesforce or ServiceNow · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:54 Chris Degnan But, but, you know, Harry, like we talked about factory, like, so Chad and I are working together on factory and, and all of the, a lot of this factory salespeople are some of the earliest salespeople that I hired at Snowflake. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:02 Chris Degnan Um, I, I like, you know, I think the world of, uh, Matan at, at factory, and I think he's got the right mindset. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:20:09 Chris Degnan I think it's making companies like factory be like the next great sales organization.
Cursor Acquired for $60BN | Anthropic Hits $1TRN in Secondary Markets & Figma, Adobe, Canva Dead? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 22:05 Rory O'Driscoll So to your comment on all the other guys, the factories of this world, there are 10, 20, this is what Jason's point is, right? 2 times in the scene
OpenAI Closes in on $100 Billion, OpenClaw Acquired, AI’s Productivity Question — With Aaron Levie
- ▶ 33:48 Aaron Levie Devon, factory, you know, all these kinds of agents. 2 times in the scene
The rise of the professional vibe coder (a new AI-era job)
- ▶ 1:15:46 Lenny Rachitsky This is something I've seen other people, Ben Tossel, who I think is a factory now, share this recently.
⚡️Context Graphs: according to the authors — Jaya Gupta, Ashu Garg, Foundation Capital
- ▶ 0:15 unnamed speaker Uh, Jaya, we apparently met three years ago at the Langchain hackathon where, uh, Factory was born.
#2287 AI made a “no code” founder into a coder
- ▶ 0:18 Andrew Warner He is now the head of developer relations at Factory, the agent native software development company.
- ▶ 0:36 Andrew Warner You sold the freaking thing to Zapier, and now, instead of going and creating another business using no-code solutions, you took a job working a factory as head of developer relations.
- ▶ 15:45 Andrew Warner You've got a team of people who are all using linear project management software to keep track of what they need to code into your, into the, into the factory software, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:35 Ben Tossell This is my instruction manual, which is the only file that like factory sees before it goes and does any of those searches.
- ▶ 47:56 Andrew Warner Um, okay, I think I'm seeing then where this goes, and then the way that you've discovered Factory, where you're working now, is you have a Ben's Bytes fund.
- ▶ 48:25 Ben Tossell Um, with Matan, who's the CEO of Factory, I think one of
Terminal-Bench: Pushing Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Factory Droid, et al to the limits
- ▶ 21:21 unnamed speaker Likewise, how, how should people think about the difference between the harnesses where it feels very nebulous, you know, like the factory one is like the droids are the better, but it's like, why, you know, like, I think to me, that's…
Snowflake's AI Revolution in Sales, Marketing and GTM with Snowflake‘s CMO and Founding CRO
- ▶ 35:55 Chris Degnan And I think, you know, I'm advising another small company called factory.ai and, and factory, you know, I, they just hired a head of sales and the same thing he's, he thought he came from another company called Mongo and 2 times in the scene
20Sales: Scaling Snowflake from $0-$3BN in ARR | Snowflake vs Databricks: My Biggest Lessons | Why Customer Success is BS and What Replaces It with Chris Chris Degnan
- ▶ 25:54 Chris Degnan I just hired, I mean, I'm an advisor of a company called factory.ai.
Art Investment 101: The Asset Everyone Overlooks
- ▶ 52:59 Jimmy Basile That's just what he did in the sixties in the days of what he called the silver factory where he had all these parties.
From Ghaziabad to Silicon Valley: Nikhil Kamath x Nikesh Arora | People by WTF | Ep. 11 · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 39:23 Nikesh Arora Windsurf, or I reached out to the founder of, you know, uh, console.ai or factory, and I'm sitting there picking their brains this morning.
The AI Coding Factory
- ▶ 55:20 Matan Grinberg So, uh, a huge privilege of, you know, factory has been working with my older brother, Cal, who, uh, who joined us. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 58:35 Matan Grinberg And one interesting addendum there, there are sometimes individuals who weren't even really developers who will use factory and have more usage than an a hundred person enterprise.
ChatGPT Codex is like 10 AI software developers (tutorial for beginners)
- ▶ 5:17 Ben Tossell I actually used a different coding agent factory to then say, put this all into code and put it on this GitHub repo.
ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual
- ▶ 44:35 unnamed speaker Uh, I mean, uh, for what it's worth, I think the one shot thing is, um, a good angle that, that the other, the other people, you know, like, and this is me comparing you to, to alternatives like Devin and Factory and all the others.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 36:00 Ben Gilbert Security reviews like Vanta's 9000 customers around the globe, including Atlassian, Quora, and Factory.
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 6:24 Shawn Wang I see something similar with Factory AI also doing like droids.
Computer Science is 'So Hot Right Now' | Grace Isford, Lux Capital · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 42:34 Grace Isford Um, so I think like factory AI in the coding space is doing excellent.
No Priors Ep. 76 | With Ramp Co-Founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh
- ▶ 32:37 Eric Glyman Tech-oriented company, and so we're on 23rd street, but six blocks south of where, where we're located is, um, uh, Andy Warhol's old, um, studio, which was called The Factory. 3 times in the scene