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American Optimist 1 
My First Million 1 
Sourcery 1 
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David Senra 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Java comes up on the a16z Podcast, the MAD Podcast, Top Founders, A Product Market Fit Show, 20VC
🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences
The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019)
- ▶ 18:07 Tobias Lütke So, so this is sort of in the way Java and others, they just didn't match the way my brain ended up constructing the relationships that make up software.
Compliance at scale and why TAM is a distraction with Christina Cacioppo of Vanta
- ▶ 14:39 John Collison And your, just to round out the point, your Java, JavaScript comparison is that, uh, you know, Java was a very popular language, uh, before the, uh, you know, emergence of, uh, uh, web browsers with JavaScript. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen: Will a16z Go Public & Why Labour Displacement with AI is Wrong? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:09:00 Marc Andreessen And so they said, what's our Java strategy? 2 times in the scene
He launched a free product for enterprise customers—then grew to $12M ARR in 2 years. | Bhaskar S... · PMF Show
- ▶ 2:39 Bhaskar S. And Java was one of the predominant sort of ways you would build an application. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:00 Bhaskar S. Second, we only wanted to build this for Java. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:47 Bhaskar S. So the agents are actually living in your application inside Java.
Inside Claude Code With Its Creator Boris Cherny · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:23 Boris Cherny You're not going to get JavaScript people to have like, you know, 15 layers of class inheritance like you would a Java programmer.
Turing CEO Jonathan Siddharth: Who Wins in Data Labelling & Why 99% of Knowledge Work Will Disappear · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 2:24 Jonathan Siddharth Write a, ah, a B to B marketplace app that connects, ah, doctors with patients, and write it on for Android, ah, with Kotlin Java, write it for iOS with, ah, Swift, and write it on the web, like with Next.js or something, right?
Ex Mr. Beast Manager Explains The Creator Economy
- ▶ 22:43 unnamed speaker And it was like a PVP server in Java.
The AI presentation
- ▶ 8:34 Benedict Evans Java wasn't the future.
The Founder Who Mastered Timing Ft Sachin Aggarwal | StackGen
- ▶ 39:38 Sachin Aggarwal But when you do that, someone is building the application in Java or Python, ah, then the, ah, DevOps person will come and write the code in Terraform or whatever, and then they'll deploy the application.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Live on TBPN
- ▶ 12:36 Satya Nadella .NET, Java.
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 57:50 Amjad Masad I didn't have a laptop at the time, and so every time I go to, like, wanting to learn Python or Java, I would go to the computer lab, download gigabytes of software,
How Kong Was Born: APIs, Hustle, and the Future of AI Infrastructure
- ▶ 33:27 Augusto Marietti We, we first build rate limiting and authentication, 10 times, hundred times, 50 times into the Python framework, the JavaScript framework, the TypeScript framework, the Java framework, whatever, PHP, blah, blah, blah.
⚡️Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Anthropic's roadmap for Agents and Developers — Mike Krieger, Anthropic
- ▶ 21:43 Mike Krieger Hey, I just need you to convert this entire repo from this new version of Java to the next, which we get all the time from our enterprise customers, and those are the ones where it's like you don't actually want to intervene that often…
Amp: The Emperor Has No Clothes
- ▶ 1:01:09 Alessio Fanelli And then there's another subset of companies that are like, well, you know, it works a little bit on the front end, but it doesn't work on like my Java service back there, so I'm not going to use it at all.
4 Startups. 2 Founders and 3 Eras Of SaaS: Installable → Cloud → AI | Sreedhar & Kiran
- ▶ 1:02:11 Kiran Darisi To give a comparison at Freshworks, when we released the product, we released in three months because we actually ditched Java.
Booz Allen CTO: AI in Government, Autonomous Driving, Quantum's Promise
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 25:58 David Rosenthal He writes it in Java and it's like super buggy and basically doesn't work.
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 26:57 David Cramer Even today, I will tell you at the company, we deprioritize things like Java or .NET as a technology stack, because most companies are not starting a new project with Java or .NET or a bunch of these old languages, right? 2 times in the scene
Unlocking Legacy Systems: Modernizing Mainframes via AI with Mechanical Orchard
- ▶ 13:45 Edward Hieatt You've got this old COBOL code, or something like it, and you want to get new code, like Java or something, to run in the cloud. 2 times in the scene
The Utility of Interpretability — Emmanuel Amiesen
- ▶ 1:07:43 Emmanuel Ameisen And you, here we do it for like language languages, but I think you could argue that you'd expect the same thing for like programming languages, where it's like, oh, if you learn what an if statement is in Python, maybe it'd be nice if you…
How BrightHive is Unlocking the Power of AI to Transform Data-Driven Work
- ▶ 28:33 Suzanne El-Moursi Um, I got my first master's in computer science, um, back when, you know, very different languages were being taught, uh, C++ and, and, and Java and, um, Linux and mainframe.
Count On Other People Being Lazier Than You
Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
- ▶ 9:24 Matt Bornstein We're talking Java here or what?
- ▶ 22:15 Matt Bornstein You know, we did file systems and some bits of operating systems and, you know, you learn Java, like Java was state of the art at the time. 2 times in the scene
How to Win in the Age of AI and Autonomy | Shyam Sankar on TBPN
- ▶ 8:28 Shyam Sankar I mean, in those days, this was a server with two gigs of RAM, uh, trying to run a four gig Java heap,
Box’s Big AI Leap: Aaron Levie on Agents & the Future of Work
- ▶ 43:02 Aaron Levie This is, you know, somewhat an illusion, you know, to Java and other, other kind of technologies.
Looking for AI strategies
- ▶ 5:23 Benedict Evans Will using LLMs to convert, to help you convert COBOL into Java, be a good company? 2 times in the scene
The Creators of Model Context Protocol
- ▶ 9:10 unnamed speaker And then like you switch over to JetBrains and you have the Java support, but then like 2 times in the scene
20Product: How to Design and Build Products in a World of Agents | Why AI Will Kill Many SaaS Products | What Products Will Thrive and Die in a World of 100M Developers with Matt Biilmann, Co-Founder and CEO @ Netlify
- ▶ 27:03 Matt Biilmann But the interesting thing is that the layer below of like Ruby and Rails developers and Java developers and .NET developers.
Agent Experience: Building an Open Web for the AI Era
- ▶ 37:07 Matt Biilmann To be a developer, you were like a Ruby and Rails or Java developer or something like that, right?
The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
- ▶ 10:36 Bret Taylor Closure compilers built on Java and super slow and stuff like that.
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- ▶ 14:34 Amjad Masad Because Java was this, like, heavy, you know, brutal thing.
How Emergence Capital Bet Early on Zoom, Salesforce, Veeva—& Now Together.ai · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 58:11 Yaz El-Baba It's once you take one application and move it from an on-prem mainframe, push it to the cloud with the technology platform that they've built for code writing from COBOL to Java to equivalence testing and a lot of other things they built…
Dataiku's Secret to Scaling AI in Global Enterprises | Florian Douetteau, CEO, Dataiku
- ▶ 3:27 Florian Douetteau In France, we have this programming language called OCaml, great functional programming language, which is French and stitched in France instead of Pascal of Java, believe it or not.
AWS CEO Matt Garman on Amazon's Big AI Chips Bet, Working With OpenAI, and Nuclear Energy
- ▶ 23:45 Matt Garman Because they, Java just does it for them, and they just don't have to worry about that.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 6:09:11 Ben Gilbert In the late 2000, they had this crazy idea that what we should do instead of switching to C or C++ or Java, we want our engineers to keep writing PHP.
- ▶ 6:09:55 Ben Gilbert and we now have enough sensitive data that we really should switch to a statically typed language like Java or C sharp.
AGI, The Future of AI Agents And The Next Wave of Opportunities in AI | Richard Socher, CEO, You.com
- ▶ 7:25 Richard Socher and eventually Java and now Python.
He sold AI robots to Walmart & raised $150M. His #1 advice to founders? "Trust your gut." | Danie... · PMF Show
- ▶ 2:10 Daniel Theobald As part of my master's thesis, this robotic operating system, and I built it in this cool new language that no one had ever heard of at the time called Java. 5 times in the scene
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 37:43 Ben Gilbert Think JavaScript, CSS, eventually, you know, Java and Flash.
Mark Roberge: The Framework for How Startups Should Scale into the Enterprise -Stage 2 Capital|E1176 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:01 Mark Roberge And that's like saying to a salesperson, challenging them to assess an engineer and how well they write Java.
Amazon's Longterm AI Vision — With AWS VP Matt Wood
Marc Andreessen on Inventing The Internet Browser (How We all Access the Internet)
- ▶ 1:24:28 Marc Andreessen Uh, one was a little software company that I joined, and then the other was, um, I got an offer actually from Sun at the time, um, which, uh, had a, um, had a unit, they had a software unit of Sun at the time called First Person, uh, which…
Episode 716 | Positioning Against Incumbents, Changing Your H1, H...
- ▶ 20:48 unnamed speaker So, for instance, people usually use JavaScript, Python, Rails, maybe Java, and other mainstream technologies to build their product and to build their business.
Ep 86: How to Teach STEM for the 21st Century with Dr. David Ruth · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 21:54 Joe Lonsdale You know, you know, getting the Java engines to
AI at Roblox: Revolutionizing Game Creation | Morgan McGuire, Chief Scientist of Roblox
- ▶ 25:21 Morgan McGuire And so it was able to learn from looking at Python or Java code, how to write Lua code for Roblox.
Chris Dixon: Who Will Win the Next Generation of Venture? | E1132 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 33:36 Chris Dixon It's all about sun and Java.
Renaissance Technologies (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 30:24 Ben Gilbert I mean, I remember in my sophomore year of college computer science class, I had a Markov chain assignment, and it was basically write a Java program to ingest this public domain book,
How to Bootstrap from 0 to Millions in Revenue w/ Ilya (CEO & Founder, Vanhack) · PMF Show
- ▶ 15:56 unnamed speaker And they say, Oh, it's Java and react. 3 times in the scene
AI and Everything Else
- ▶ 32:34 Benedict Evans It will be Flash and Java.
The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)
- ▶ 27:35 Inbal Shani When, you know, when I was learning how to code, I used to code in C and then, and then Java became a thing. 2 times in the scene
A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)
- ▶ 1:12:58 Will Larson And some people were like, oh, like they didn't like that they use JavaScript instead of, instead of Java or something.
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- ▶ 32:14 Guillermo Rauch oh, I have this Java backend Docker container that I want to deploy.
Selling His Company To A US Public Company (Nutanix) And Now Building Atomicwork, Vijay Rayapati
- ▶ 21:33 Vijay Rayapati He said, I studied Java, or I learned Java. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:23 Vijay Rayapati And uh, by then there was an open source tool called WSDL to Java. 2 times in the scene
Yann LeCun: Meta’s New AI Model LLaMA; Why Elon is Wrong about AI; Open-source AI Models | E1014 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:10 Yann LeCun So on Sun Microsystems, it was Solaris and, you know, whatever web server and Java, and then on the, on the Microsoft side, it was Windows with IIT or whatever, you know, and ASP, which was their kind of, ah, server and client-side…
Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
- ▶ 49:16 David Singleton We write a lot of code in other languages like Java and TypeScript as well, but
Ep. #2: Secrets of Social Media Success, Mental Health & Distribution Hacks - 3 OGs Reveal All · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 2:25:48 Umang Bedi There was the Microsoft camp, and there was the Java camp. 2 times in the scene
Episode 655 | Seat-Based Pricing, Can Churn Be Too Low? and More...
- ▶ 25:06 Rob Walling Oh, Java as well. 2 times in the scene
Adam Grenier: The Inside Story to Uber’s Hypergrowth; How We Spent $1B/mo in China | E989 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 0:53 Adam Grenier Uh, my first client ever was Sun Microsystems, and so we were doing, uh, you know, we were requiring Java developers to make apps for phones.
Bootstrapped to $30m By Acquiring Smaller Companies for 2x, How Question Pro Did It
- ▶ 6:55 Vivek Bhaskaran Um, because otherwise you'll have a hodgepodge of, you know, you know, these guys use Ruby, those guys use Java, these guys use Python.
Episode 631 | Re-writing Your Codebase, Stair Stepping, and Diffi...
- ▶ 3:27 Rob Walling And when he says something more corporate, you know, think.net or Java, something that's not as common in the startup space.
When to invest in new acquisition channels | Adam Grenier (Uber, MasterClass)
- ▶ 53:52 Adam Grenier My first client ever was on microsystems, like early 2000, getting Java developers to make
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:43:31 Ben Gilbert It was, I think you can write in Python or Java
E79: Analyzing the leaked draft overturning Roe v. Wade with Amy Howe and Tom Goldstein
- ▶ 2:07 Chamath Palihapitiya And most recently he represented Google in a fair use copyright infringement case, Google versus Oracle, um, about the use of Java APIs.
The Path to a Billion Dollars: How to Create Multi-Revenue Streams with Bill.com CRO Tom Clayton
- ▶ 17:39 Tom Clayton Uh, Java software. 2 times in the scene
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 11:44 Brendan Eich Java failed and Flash eventually failed.
- ▶ 17:53 Brendan Eich Um, the LDAP team from University of Michigan, Tim Howes and company, the Kiva app server, a bunch of Java investments, even started building a Java jitting runtime to rival Hotspot, which Sun had bought Anamorphic to build.
Taylor Swift (Acquired’s Version) · Acquired
- ▶ 4:41 Christina Cacioppo Um, and so they, they started something called SockTo, uh, which sort of like Java, JavaScript, like,
What we know about web 3 so far
- ▶ 40:31 Benedict Evans Or, or you just said it'll be, it'll be, you know, um, it'll be Java.
She Bought Toilet Paper in Bali Before She Knew Her Business Was Gone
- ▶ 4:24 Kim Desmond In our case, it was Java because that was the programming language 3 times in the scene
Rashmi Kwatra – Sixteenth Street Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.17)
- ▶ 1:01:23 Rashmi Kwatra To reach or access a customer in sub-Saharan Java or in places outside of the metropolitan cities.
Games and Roblox
- ▶ 6:50 Benedict Evans I mean, that's something my son has wanted to do is, you know, open the Minecraft creator, which suddenly you're in this horrible janky Java app, and you can make a world, and you can publish it, and then you can play it.
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year
- ▶ 13:22 Michel (Mike) van Velde Um, well, the interesting bit is, you know, um, I grew the agency organically, and I was not able to, um, to offer both, like, uh, PHP, .NET, Java, uh, multiple content management systems, um, high-end.
Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
- ▶ 55:05 Balaji Srinivasan Um, ha, you know, uh, the, nowadays it's just, you know, like somebody who's choosing San Francisco for a startup, I crinkle my eyebrows as, you know, I mentioned it before, before the pandemic, I said it was like choosing Java, you know,…
Robinhood: Vlad Tenev
- ▶ 16:50 Vlad Tenev And so we kind of chatted about it, and we were like, imagine instead of a Windows machine, you just built it on Linux, wrote it in C, which was a low-level language rather than Java, um, had everything on one box rather than 10 boxes, and
App stores: arguing like it's 2009
- ▶ 0:52 Benedict Evans Um, the I mode handsets in Japan had a Java app store.
The Secret Weapon That Quietly Beats Every Competitor
- ▶ 34:41 Frank Olschlager So one of the things that had, and, you know, luckily it was, was Java.
Cocaine, Coding, and Cashflow, The Truth about Dan Martell
- ▶ 8:55 Dan Martell And, um, in one of the rooms, there was this old four E six computer in a book on Java programming. 2 times in the scene
Episode 517 | Married Co-founders Who Turned a Free Tool Into a Fast-Growing SaaS Product
- ▶ 2:46 John Samuelson I've always been a Java developer, and I wanted to learn this new thing called Node.js, and so that's kind of what started it all, and
Fireside Chat: George Fraser (Founder & CEO, Fivetran) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 15:21 George Fraser And so if you're a Fivetran software engineer, um, when you build a new connector, it's not like you just sit down and start a new, you know, a new Java project, uh, you know, MVN new.
How to Resurrect Innovation in the Enterprise // Amr Awadallah, Google (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 32:25 Amr Awadallah Java.
1586 How He Built a $30M ARR Company With Just $1M Raised in PaaS Space
- ▶ 4:41 Jan Aleman On the high end, you, you would use tools like Java and, and, uh, and .NET, with which you could basically build anything, but you need a very high budget.
Founder's Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks
- ▶ 26:40 Julian Lemoine Instead of Ruby, he took Java, which is better in terms of performance.
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
- ▶ 20:05 Tobias Lütke So, so this is sort of in the way Java and others, they just didn't match the way my brain ended up constructing the relationships that make up software.
What's Next for Open-Source Time Series Data? // Paul Dix, Influx Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
A CS Education That's Free Until You Get a Job - Austen Allred of Lambda School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 46:21 Austen Allred They have ridiculous dropout, um, and they're proud of that, um, but in my opinion, it's because they start, like, writing Java, or they start writing C, and you're, you have to go semesters before you get to a point where you can
a16z Podcast | Product-Market SALES Fit (What Comes First?)
- ▶ 5:39 Jyoti Bansal And what I found was, okay, the most pain is where they are these kind of medium to large companies which are building these complex distributed Java applications.
- ▶ 22:01 Jyoti Bansal Application monitoring for Java applications. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Building Crypto, from Vision to Reality
- ▶ 12:57 Chris Dixon I was watching recently the, if you watch all the, ah, Justice Department stuff from, like, the late nineties, early 2000, Microsoft, they talk about Java the whole time, they never once talked about Linux, and Linux, look, every Android…
a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
- ▶ 18:09 Dave Turetsky So maybe you're never going to be a Java programmer.
a16z Podcast | Network Effects, Origin Stories, and the Evolution of Tech
- ▶ 11:02 W. Brian Arthur I remember hearing one story that Sun Microsystems had developed Java, and naturally that cost a huge amount of money, so the guys with the green shades, the accountants, were saying, naturally enough, we should charge a huge amount of…
a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
- ▶ 6:18 Benedict Evans And that was, again, supposedly going to happen with Java on the client, which tells you how long ago 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:07 Steven Sinofsky And, and you see the same thing within the, if you unfold a hospital, like looking at CTs or MRIs, like five years ago, that was a very complicated Java application that didn't really work, that needed a firewall, specially configured and…
- ▶ 12:59 Benedict Evans There's another argument that says, well, really, this should be, I mean, coming, coming back to, you know, the browser as a platform from, from Mark from 20 years ago, there was the parallel Larry Andreessen fantasy that you were going to…
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