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every year every show Latent Space 65 the a16z Podcast 49 Top Founders 26 20VC 25 Acquired 22 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 14 the MAD Podcast 14 the Startup Ideas Podcast 12 
Lenny's Podcast 10 
Startups For the Rest of Us 8 
In Depth 7 
No Priors 6 
Starter Story 6 
Cheeky Pint 5 
We Live to Build 5 
My First Million 5 
the Neon Show 3 
Founder's Journal 2 
Mixergy 2 
American Optimist 2 
Big Technology 2 
the Knowledge Project 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 1 
Sourcery 1 
Capital Allocators 1 
TBPN 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where JavaScript comes up on Latent Space, the a16z Podcast, Top Founders, 20VC, Acquired
What Got Me to Today Will Not Get Me to Tomorrow
- ▶ 28:12 Greg Sobiech Uh, checking, checking JavaScript to make sure something is implemented properly.
I Built a $1M AI App [No Code]
- ▶ 4:20 David Bressler If I see it, I kind of know, okay, that's JavaScript.
Deepfakes, AGI, Jobs Under Threat & More | DevRev Founder, Manoj Agarwal | Neon Show
- ▶ 0:28 Manoj Agarwal You can ask the machine to write in Python or write it in JavaScript or TypeScript or whatever language, just with one prompt.
- ▶ 31:11 Manoj Agarwal yeah, you can, like, you can ask the machine to write in Python or write it in JavaScript or TypeScript or whatever language, like, just with one prompt that you can do that.
The AI-First Graphics Editor - with Suhail Doshi of Playground AI
- ▶ 5:42 Suhail Doshi One of the problems with, with Mighty was that, um, JavaScript is single threaded in the browser. 3 times in the scene
The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- ▶ 13:36 Alessio Fanelli And the copilot answer was like, oh, it uses JavaScript and NPM and this, and it's like, but that's not what it does.
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)
- ▶ 9:55 Guillermo Rauch I had reached out to him many years before talking about front end performance and how some of the new techniques that I was developing with JavaScript could really speed up, uh, WordPress themes and things like that.
Guillermo Rauch: Why Great Companies are Defined by How Many Things They Say No To | E1069 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 3:16 Guillermo Rauch As you can call it like my, my five minutes of fame was I got accepted to become a core contributor to this project, Mootools, which is quite foundational in the early days of JavaScript on the web.
No Priors Ep. 33 | With Replit's CEO & Co-Founder Amjad Masad
- ▶ 1:24 Amjad Masad We were the first to compile Python and Ruby and other languages to, to JavaScript. 2 times in the scene
Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
- ▶ 5:41 Shawn Wang Um, I know it's such a pain to learn the JS ecosystem already.
No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway)
- ▶ 59:05 Austin Hay You know, they know JavaScript.
Why I Would Invest In These Startups
- ▶ 16:05 Alex Lieberman His bio is sculptor, programmer, JavaScript, Python, PHP.
Scaling a B2B Leader from $0 to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath's CEO and Founder Daniel Dines
- ▶ 8:39 Daniel Dines And then next we, we were having some few interesting customers that were telling us, guys, it's very difficult for us to use code, to use like C Sharp or JavaScript or whatever to build process automation.
Ep 61: High School Dropout to Billion-Dollar Startup; the Story of Guillermo Rauch & Vercel · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 4:47 Guillermo Rauch I made a asymmetrical bet early on that front-end engineering was going to be more important than back-end engineering and that the language that the browser could run, which still to this date is only JavaScript. 2 times in the scene
Episode 662 | Selling for Five Years of Runway, Profit vs. Revenu...
- ▶ 19:11 unnamed speaker I'm a JavaScript full stack developer, and I'm, I'm not sure what to do with my career, so I have an offer to be a founding engineer on an agile backed or VC backed startup, and that would lead me to perhaps a more corporate job or a role… 3 times in the scene
Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
- ▶ 6:49 Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock This enables users to query directly from JavaScript front-end apps, from desktop apps,
Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:15 Amjad Masad It was like their JavaScript of the time, right? 2 times in the scene
Career frameworks, A/B testing, onboarding tips, selling to engineers | Laura Schaffer (Amplitude)
- ▶ 24:36 Laura Schaffer It's like, oh, like I do, I, I code in JavaScript and I can select that.
An inside look at Mixpanel’s product journey | Vijay Iyengar
- ▶ 35:52 Vijay Iyengar So the problem on web is just due to ad blockers and other unreliable things in the JavaScript world, you end up dropping 20 to 30% of your events.
How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)
- ▶ 17:53 Ben Williams A JavaScript developer just won't care if you support Golang or Rust, but will absolutely care if a key feature like automated package upgrades just isn't available for their ecosystem.
How to shoot through the scale gap (hardest part of scaling rev is between $1M ARR - $6M ARR)
- ▶ 20:08 Adam Baker But when you look at a platform, you might have, we put a little bit of JavaScript into each for each product feature in our customers platform.
Episode 633 | Building SaaS Plus a Two-Sided Marketplace
- ▶ 12:54 Matt Wensing Turns out we needed a JavaScript developer, et cetera, et cetera.
How he negotiated term sheet to raise $10m and pivot his no code platform from services to SaaS
- ▶ 4:40 Nathan Latka You know, things like the best, not just the best way to build like applications, the best way to build JavaScript applications. 3 times in the scene
Building Product That Sells Itself Ft. Dheeraj Pandey, CEO-DevRev, Co-Founder-Nutanix
- ▶ 1:06:18 Dheeraj Pandey You know, at 46, I'm learning JavaScript, TypeScript, React, and even Go, and because that's one way I can actually show to my own people that look, you know, don't get tribal in your comfort zone of, oh, I'm just a back-end person, just a…
Webflow Calls Itself No-Code But Here Is What They Leave Out
- ▶ 9:25 Uros Mikic Because instead of paying for a plugin five bucks a month, you're going to probably be developing with JS and APIs and kind of everything on the back end to integrate something kind of to Webflow to work as it was working in WordPress with…
Drunk Business Ideas That Could Make You Millions
- ▶ 27:25 Shaan Puri Like, the languages I know aren't really used anymore, and I don't really remember a lot of it, and I haven't coded in years. 2 times in the scene
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:14 Ben Gilbert He holds the credential of inventing JavaScript, a source of much joy and also much pain for many of you out there, and Brendan was the chief architect of Netscape and eventually became the CEO of Mozilla, the makers of Firefox.
- ▶ 5:31 Ben Gilbert Grew up using Firefox and the Mozilla browser before that, and Netscape before that, and God knows I use plenty of JavaScript every day in all facets of my life, so my life would not be what it is without your work over the years.
- ▶ 5:49 Brendan Eich Your JavaScript use keeps me in t-shirts.
- ▶ 9:12 Ben Gilbert But that is enabled because of the ecosystem that was built around JavaScript.
- ▶ 9:17 Ben Gilbert On the other side of things, the entire advertising and ad tracking and digital advertising ecosystem also is built on JavaScript, and so I think there's an unbelievable arc to everything that you've built over the years in deciding to…
- ▶ 11:40 Brendan Eich But JavaScript was the only bite at the Apple for that kind of runtime.
- ▶ 12:40 Ben Gilbert Even before Netscape, before JavaScript, you joined Silicon Graphics.
- ▶ 18:19 Brendan Eich I rescued watermark to take over JavaScript in late 97, and I went off to found mozilla.org after I'd standardized JavaScript.
- ▶ 19:59 Brendan Eich Definitionally and spiritually, and as the community manager, and I did the tech side, and we had a bunch of IT people and a couple of tools people who helped us build things that are now taken for granted or now standard on GitHub, and we…
- ▶ 38:42 Brendan Eich And it wasn't really at first clearly about fast JavaScript or all the stuff that people think of.
- ▶ 56:48 Brendan Eich JavaScript is used on these publisher pages, and I designed JavaScript on purpose.
- ▶ 57:08 Brendan Eich So JavaScript's mutability was a huge boon.
- ▶ 1:41:55 Brendan Eich That was a historic blog post, but some of them are still relevant to do with trust but verify, also WebAssembly, JavaScript stuff.
MVP Power: Found Tech Co-Founder on Upwork, $0 to $180,000 in under 12 months
- ▶ 15:31 Nathan Latka Was it writing some Python or JavaScript?
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,
She Bought Toilet Paper in Bali Before She Knew Her Business Was Gone
- ▶ 5:01 Kim Desmond Most of the other boot camps were teaching front-end technologies like JavaScript.
MFM Goes to Jail, Startup Cities, Julian Shapiro Building a Ranch, Testing Out Purchases, and More
Behind-the-Scenes of Shaan's Power Writing Course | My First Million #204
- ▶ 10:25 Shaan Puri Oh, you write JavaScript or like, you know, you're a, you're a backend engineer.
Making Millions Improving Mobility & How to Beat LinkedIn | My First Million #184
- ▶ 51:10 Shaan Puri Angular is a JavaScript, like, framework.
How He Grew $5m Agency and Why He Exited for EBITDA Multiple Last Year
- ▶ 9:03 Michel (Mike) van Velde Well, we see a massive growth in B to B because, um, uh, it was not only Drupal that we're doing, uh, we do a lot of front-end development as well, uh, with the latest JavaScript, JavaScript frameworks, and, um, so there's a lot of work…
Wild! He Presold $250k Of His SaaS Idea. Now wants to beat SEMRush
- ▶ 24:06 Ahmed Qureshi Javascript. 2 times in the scene
Chris Dixon – The Future of Blockchain at a16z (Capital Allocators, EP.172)
- ▶ 34:37 Chris Dixon Ethereum said, let's take that architecture and let's generalize it and let's add a programming language that looks a lot like a common programming language like JavaScript.
Trustisto Hits $60k Revenue Helping Ecommerce Brands Increase Cart Conversion Rate
- ▶ 7:25 Wojciech Grześkowiak Uh, we use mostly JavaScript and Node.
Cocaine, Coding, and Cashflow, The Truth about Dan Martell
- ▶ 7:35 Nathan Latka You're in jail and you say rehab and JavaScript came together for you.
Doka Image Editor SDK Sells $120k Licenses
- ▶ 11:00 Nathan Latka So anyone building, anyone building an email marketing tool where users upload images and you want them to have some lightweight ways to edit the images, you could use Doka, which is a high performance JavaScript image editing tool in the…
VaporWare Charges $25k to Build SaaS MVP, $1.2m 2019 Revenue
8base is a next generation backend-as-a-service for powering SaaS and other go-to-market applications.
- ▶ 17:44 Albert Santalo So it's not like they can just export and go to the next thing, but, but their code is written in JavaScript or TypeScript.
#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
- ▶ 54:05 Derek Sivers In spaced repetition, like Anki, uh, SRS flashcards, a lot of people say, yeah, just give me somebody's deck so I can learn JavaScript or whatever.
20VC: How Roam Research Analyse Product Design, Team-Building, The Future of Collaboration Tools & Applying Tesla Go-To-Market To Roam with Conor White-Sullivan, Founder & CEO @ Roam Research
- ▶ 8:29 unnamed speaker And in some ways, it's better than a lot of the things we have in JavaScript or other programming paradigms.
20VC: Twitch Founder & CEO Emmett Shear on When To Persist vs When To Give Up For Entrepreneurs, The Fundamental Tension When Scaling Orgs and How To Optimise Them & How The Role of CEO Fundamentally Changes with Scale
- ▶ 3:17 Emmett Shear And so we started working on a JavaScript powered calendar.
1669 Weird Way He Gets Customers, $1m in ARR for Data Pipeline Visibility
- ▶ 13:10 Nathan Latka Is there something like JavaScript scrape you do, or how do you, how do you get that list?
1480 Social Listening Tool Raising $6m on $22M Pre Money (10x Valuation)
- ▶ 11:24 Nathan Latka They install it with like JavaScript or something.
What's Next for Open-Source Time Series Data? // Paul Dix, Influx Data (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
1407 Ex Facebook Now Happily Bootstrapping in UX Research Tool Space Past $125k in MRR
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 4:57 Chris Dixon But as you're saying, it does, it did, it, it, they developed their own programming language Solidity, which is kind of JavaScript-like, but it's kind of eccentric.
1358 He's Put in $450k Before Turning on Paywall, Smart or Not?
- ▶ 9:05 Nathan Latka So just to be clear, if someone installs your widget, the job, it's a line of JavaScript on their website from birdseed, they're doing live chat.
1267 Customer Intelligence Platform Powerd by AI Passes 30 Customers, $300k in MRR
- ▶ 15:37 Derek Wang Uh, JavaScript.
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Cities -- Analogies
a16z Podcast | Cryptonetworks and Decentralization -- Building Blocks
- ▶ 33:32 Chris Dixon What if we did, created, you know, back then, like, you didn't have encryption on the internet, you didn't have, Netscape, people forget sometimes, they created JavaScript, you didn't have programming language, they created JavaScript,…
a16z Podcast | The Evolution of Payments
- ▶ 17:35 John Collison We have much more interesting data that we actually make available to our engineers, and so when we're looking at blocking fraud, we're doing stuff like, you know, looking at the, you know, we have JavaScript running on the end customer's…
a16z Podcast | Why Crypto Tokens Matter
- ▶ 21:18 Chris Dixon Number two is it's got a full, you know, Turing complete, essentially JavaScript, Solidity, programming language, right?
a16z Podcast | The Changing Culture of Open Source
- ▶ 0:48 Sonal Chokshi And just for quick context, Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for building fast and scalable network applications.
- ▶ 4:03 Michael Rogers And the, the community around JS, the people that have built modules on top of it, we'd actually done a lot of experiments in how do you grow sustainable contributors over time in, in this new GitHub kind of ecosystem.
- ▶ 27:24 Michael Rogers I think it varies, but like, you can take a few examples, like, uh, so React is like a very big, uh, JavaScript, uh, framework right now from Facebook.
a16z Podcast | Cryptocurrencies, App Coins, and Investing in Protocols
- ▶ 16:50 Olaf Carlson-Wee And, you know, Ethereum's, uh, language, it has, it has Solidity, which is like JavaScript, and Serpent, which is like Python. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Ethereum, App Coins, and Beyond
- ▶ 50:07 Chris Dixon Netscape built JavaScript, they built cookies, they built SSL, and they built them because they had to for their customers.
a16z Podcast | Innovation vs. Invention at Google I/O
- ▶ 17:05 Steven Sinofsky And then the code that you could download was JavaScript and an HTML, but it turns out to not be rich enough for a whole bunch of interaction styles and a whole bunch of things.
a16z Podcast | Security's Painful Prominence and Why There is No Turning Back
- ▶ 4:18 Marc Andreessen Um, when we, when we invented JavaScript at Netscape in 1995, the concept of cross-site scripting was a complete unknown.
a16z Podcast | The Apple WWDC 2014 Deep Dive
- ▶ 9:01 Dave Jagoda So I, just looking through the documents like that before, there's, uh, features of Python, Ruby, CoffeeScript, JavaScript, Go, um, and even hints of languages like Java and Lisp that they've, uh, incorporated into it, which is, uh, sort… 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Searching for Mobile’s Own PageRank
- ▶ 9:05 Balaji Srinivasan One plausible scenario is that every Java API in Android gets rewritten to be a JavaScript API for Chrome OS so that you have a migration path, right? 3 times in the scene
Company Building in Crypto: A Conversation between Brian Armstrong and Chris Dixon
- ▶ 14:59 Brian Armstrong You go visit it, and maybe it's sending JavaScript and CSS and HTML over the wire, but it doesn't really matter to the user. 2 times in the scene
1191 How Bootstrapped Time Tracking CEO Drives 100% yoy Growth, $3.8m in ARR
- ▶ 12:14 Dave Nevogt We've got web-based, uh, JavaScript timers.
Startup Technology - Technical Founder Advice · Y Combinator
- ▶ 52:31 Calvin French-Owen Uh, we were really involved with a lot of different open source communities on GitHub, uh, particularly there were some in Node in the very early days, uh, some JavaScript ones, component, et cetera.
Peter Reinhardt on Finding Product Market Fit at Segment · Y Combinator
- ▶ 16:39 Peter Reinhardt So, you know, our JavaScript library is open source, our iOS SDK is open source, our Android SDK is open source, so you can sort of collect data from anywhere, and those collection libraries are, are open source, but the sort of core…
20VC: The Commonalities In The Makings Of Truly Great People, How Silicon Valley Will Become The Home For Crypto and Frontier Tech Once Again & Why Games Are Such A Good Tool To Understand Human Motivation with Daniel Gross, Founder & Pioneer, Head of AI
- ▶ 30:11 Daniel Gross We moved on to Python, moved from Python to JavaScript even, and you can imagine Retool is another layer of abstraction, basically enabling programming for another generation of folks.
Cryptonetworks and Cities: Analogies
Crypto and Decentralization: Building Blocks
- ▶ 32:41 Chris Dixon What if we did, created, you know, that back then, like, you didn't have encryption on the internet, you didn't have, Netscape, people forget sometimes, they created JavaScript, you didn't have programming language, they created…
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 35:36 Vivek Ravisankar For JavaScript that's getting launched every month or every two months, which is kind of driving crazy because you just have to keep migrating from one hour to the other.
Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
- ▶ 59:26 Des Traynor For some people, they might want to install JavaScript.
Decrypting Crypto: From Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs
- ▶ 14:19 Alex Rampell Ethereum script looks very similar to JavaScript, so here's something where I can say, all right, here are the rules for voting, or here's the rule for a majority.
861 SaaS: Started at 15 Years Old, Can They Beat Intercom, Hotjar?
- ▶ 1:22 James Gill So, uh, you drop a bit of JavaScript on your site, um, and we give you a bunch of tools like live chat and analytics.
20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige
- ▶ 12:42 Paul Buchheit Again, with like Gmail early on, one of the most internally controversial decisions that we had made was to build the whole thing in JavaScript.
821: Crypto: $17m Raised to Speed Up Mining Blocks Using New "Validators"
- ▶ 1:50 Nathan Latka He since worked on open source projects, including a coffee script compiler and interpreter written in JavaScript and end to end encrypted email system called scramble.io and a cryptocurrency exchange.
798: Mobile Ad Tech Passes $100m in Revenues
- ▶ 4:28 Nathan Latka Like does Hearst and Time Inc. have to install a JavaScript snippet, things like that? 2 times in the scene
A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
- ▶ 10:50 Viral Shah Yeah, 800 people, there are 1600 contributed Julia packages, but people keep coming up to us and be like, oh, but, you know, R has 6000, or, you know, JavaScript has a bazillion or something, and, um, you know, the thing is that you could…
20VC: How To Run The Perfect Fundraising Process, Why Time Kills All Deals & Why You Have To Get VCs Out Of The Board Room with Wayne Chang, Serial Entrepreneur & Angel Investor
- ▶ 1:57 Harry Stebbings Their course library has thousands of hours of content where you can learn all sorts of topics including JavaScript, iOS, Android, and more, with high-quality video instructions from real industry experts teaching you all you need to know,…
20VC: Why Investors Have The Biggest Problem with Bias, Why Our Job Is To Maximise Risk & Why It Is Essential To Get Good at Losing with True Ventures Founder, Jon Callaghan
- ▶ 1:46 Harry Stebbings Thousands of hours of content where you can learn all sorts of topics, including JavaScript, iOS, Android, and more, with high-quality video instructions from real industry experts teaching you all you need to know, and quizzes and code…
Artist Lauren McCarthy Will Be Your Home's Brain · Y Combinator
- ▶ 6:25 Craig Cannon Because you also had the, your JavaScript thing, which was, uh, P five JS, which is like about opening up art and technology as a whole. 2 times in the scene
20VC: The First ICO Blockchain Incubator Ever, Why ICO's Will Change The World of Venture As We Know It & How The M&A Market Will Respond To ICO's with Mike, Jones, Co-Founder @ Science Inc
- ▶ 28:03 Harry Stebbings Their course library has thousands of hours of content where you can learn all sorts of topics, including JavaScript, iOS, Android, and more, with high-quality video instructions from RealIndustryX
20VC: Nuzzel's Jonathan Abrams on Why The Top VCs Do Not Have A PlayBook For Startup Success, Why Most Boards Are Not Successful & Why He Is Bored Of Hearing "I Fell Into VC"
- ▶ 1:43 Harry Stebbings Their course library has thousands of hours of content where you can learn all sorts of topics, including JavaScript, iOS, Android, and more, with high-quality video instructions from RealIndustryX,
- ▶ 28:54 Harry Stebbings Their course library has thousands of hours of content where you can learn all sorts of topics, including JavaScript, iOS, Android, and more, with high-quality video instructions from real industry at
20VC: YC's Daniel Gross on How YC Can Democratise AI & Reduce Incumbency Advantages, Why ML Enabled Software Will Eat The Software That Ate The World & Whether AI Will Produce Independent Companies or Be Technology within Incumbents
- ▶ 1:50 Harry Stebbings Thousands of hours of content, where you can learn all sorts of topics, including JavaScript, iOS, Android, and more, with high-quality video instructions from real industry experts, teaching you all you need to know, and quizzes and code…