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every year every show Startups For the Rest of Us 16 Top Founders 11 Acquired 9 the MAD Podcast 7 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 6 Latent Space 6 
Cheeky Pint 4 Lenny's Podcast 4 20VC 4 
Startup Acquisition Stories 3 
In Depth 3 
Starter Story 3 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 3 
the a16z Podcast 2 
Founder's Journal 1 
Mixergy 1 
My First Million 1 
No Priors 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1 
Big Technology 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where PHP comes up on Startups For the Rest of Us, Top Founders, Acquired, the MAD Podcast, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Why AI Agents Could Finally Reinvent the Credit Card
- ▶ 27:28 Alex Rampell And I, I pulled like an all nighter making this demo, um, in PHP.
Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
- ▶ 14:55 Matthew Prince That's out there is running a programming language called PHP, not the most efficient programming language.
Cloudflare CEO: The Internet's Business Model Is Dead
- ▶ 51:04 Matthew Prince It's just, you know, it's a, it's a PHP piece of software again, amazing for what it was, but it costs like, you know, three or four dollars at current traffic levels in order to run.
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- ▶ 2:06 Simon Eskildsen Yeah, I don't know where he lives now, but, and he's the PHP.
The SaaS Apocalypse: Who Lives & Who Dies | Insight Partners Co-Founder, Jerry Murdock · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 6:05 Jerry Murdock People couldn't afford to build websites with, uh, Sun, Sun servers and Oracle databases, which were expensive, but the lamp sack came out, which was Linux, Apache, web server, um, MySQL database and PHP front end development tool.
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- ▶ 14:34 David Soria Parra You want to, to have, like, a shared state that you can, like, have, and that's kind of ok, and like, we have seen this in PHP application and Python application being done, but it, it's,
How I Built It: $30K/month Micro-SaaS (Subscribr Breakdown)
- ▶ 13:22 Gil Hildebrand I'm using a Laravel app, which is a really excellent PHP framework.
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.
Tobi Lütke is still captivated by internet commerce, 20 years later
- ▶ 1:21:45 John Collison And I'm curious, some people decry that, um, programming has gotten harder to on-ramp into where, you know, the first stuff I built was, like, janky PHP web pages. 3 times in the scene
The antidote to AI fatigue — Answer.ai Solveit
- ▶ 13:10 Jeremy Howard This might be a bit before your time, Alessio, you know, where you upload a PHP file to it and instantly anybody in the world can start playing with your program.
#2279 How are there so many AI agencies?
- ▶ 16:26 Rob Howard Being really good at coding, whether that was JavaScript, Python, PHP, or anything else, meant you had essentially 10 X or more the earning potential and the ability to build quality solutions than everybody else in the world.
20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
- ▶ 33:41 Alex Schultz We couldn't exist without MySQL, PHP, all of these things, Memcache, OpenCompute, all of those things were critical to us existing as a company.
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 5:41 Abhinav Asthana And, you know, from Visual Basic, I graduated to, I think building on PHP and MySQL. 2 times in the scene
A Cheeky Pint with serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels (@levelsio)
- ▶ 7:44 Pieter Levels PHP, you know, like.
How rejecting conventional wisdom grew Sentry to a $3 billion company | David Cramer (Co-founder)
- ▶ 1:31:22 David Cramer And so, for example, one of our big ecosystems is the PHP Laravel ecosystem.
Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
- ▶ 1:16:27 Guillermo Rauch It was, if anyone is familiar with PHP, it's kind of like how PHP worked. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 19:03 Thomas Dohmke And so we are still, uh, I think for like a decade or so, uh, at least going to have software developers that work in, in lots of old school, you know, PHP code and COBOL code and, and, and all that stuff.
Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 17:29 Diana Hu PHP. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 27:50 Jared Friedman And, and like Ruby is an incredibly slow language, even like technically slower than PHP, which was already too slow.
Episode 751 | TinySeed Tales s4e2: From Developer to Manager
- ▶ 5:44 Rob Walling You have PHP, you have Ruby already.
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 1:25:59 Shawn Wang You know, like the previous generation of, uh, site builders were mostly Ruby shops and some PHP.
How I Built It: $37K/Month Notion App
- ▶ 6:16 Julian Nahum I'm actually using PHP, which a lot of developer likes to make fun of with this PHP framework called Laravel. 2 times in the scene
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 37:26 David Rosenthal A rich web app as one of these projects, you know, fully built on the LAMP stack, and he had probably used the LAMP stack, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP for course match.
- ▶ 37:41 Ben Gilbert And so to be clear, that's an operating system, a web server with Apache, MySQL, the free open source database, PHP, the free open source programming language.
- ▶ 39:10 Ben Gilbert 10 dollar domain, hundred dollar a year web hosting, that includes the database, no licenses required, PHP is all free.
- ▶ 2:08:48 David Rosenthal Like, you're not just gonna code this up in PHP.
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 6:09:26 Ben Gilbert So they didn't have to take the performance hit from running PHP, which was an interpreted language, but it also solved this like scalability problem because then they didn't need to go hire all these systems level programmers.
- ▶ 6:10:09 Ben Gilbert So they invented a new language called Hack that was very similar to PHP but had static typing.
Do this to build a $200,000 side hustle (The Online Directory Blueprint)
Episode 734 | The 20 Year Bootstrapper (With Ian Landsman)
- ▶ 2:32 Rob Walling Listening know what on-premise, but it's where they actually download your code, your source code, php Laravel, and they will install it on their own server, and then they, what, I guess, what's the benefit?
- ▶ 10:47 Ian Landsman And so it's like, okay, I know PHP.
- ▶ 23:15 Ian Landsman You can even write your own PHP in certain spots if you want to do something very custom, which is something that other help desk software won't let you customize on that deeper level, obviously, because there's no way for them to really
- ▶ 26:37 Rob Walling I have a, may seem off topic, but I have a question for you about Laravel, because you're written on, well, you're written on some custom PHP that you hacked together 20 years ago, 3 times in the scene
How to Build a Profitable SaaS in 6 Months and Sell it in 5 Days
- ▶ 2:01 Mark Givko Uh, I then got interested in PHP.
Tutorial on how to write tweets with man who gets 1B+ impressions per year
- ▶ 21:09 Greg Isenberg Um, talked about PHP, and like, this is a language that no, not many people sort of 2 times in the scene
Episode 731 | How to Delegate as a Perfectionist, SaaS Partnershi...
- ▶ 43:08 Rob Walling And so it was like PHP, it was original active servers, 2 times in the scene
The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (“The Manager’s Path”)
- ▶ 27:01 Lenny Rachitsky He's just like, this works. 2 times in the scene
Answer.ai & AI Magic with Jeremy Howard
- ▶ 49:45 Jeremy Howard Compared to like, oh, write a PHP script and put it in the home directory that you get when you sign up to this shell provider, which is what it was like in the nineties. 2 times in the scene
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:02:31 Ben Gilbert I mean, if you think about where all the development efforts were going, it was the LAMP stack, the, uh, Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP, the stuff Facebook was written on.
How Stack Overflow Secretly Made $65,000,000 on its SaaS Last Year
- ▶ 8:46 Prashanth Chandrasekar They're looking up content on PHP.
Episode 704 | Landing Pages, Buying a SaaS, the Right Tech Stack,...
- ▶ 32:21 Rob Walling I know they're stable, but like, what if I know PHP?
How to Bootstrap from 0 to Millions in Revenue w/ Ilya (CEO & Founder, Vanhack) · PMF Show
- ▶ 12:54 unnamed speaker So, uh, there was a lot of business English out there where you can learn about how to, you know, do, do English in a business environment, but there was no English for software engineers where you can learn how to pronounce like PHP Ruby…
Why I Would Invest In These Startups
- ▶ 16:05 Alex Lieberman His bio is sculptor, programmer, JavaScript, Python, PHP.
Episode 663 | 5 Insights SaaS Founders Should Know About A.I. (Ig...
- ▶ 21:11 Rob Walling And in fact, if you were using, I mean, there's a reason Laravel came out with PHP, Django came out with Python, because those languages became much, much slower than Ruby at building web apps.
Spotify CEO Daniel Ek · Acquired
- ▶ 1:03:53 Ben Gilbert How do I install the PHP server?
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
Episode 655 | Seat-Based Pricing, Can Churn Be Too Low? and More...
- ▶ 24:52 Rob Walling When I first started, I knew Perl, and then I had to learn on the job ASP, then I learned PHP, and then I learned ColdFusion, and then I learned .NET.
Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 30:36 Amjad Masad And, and so you, you had a, you know, college student like, uh, like Zuck, you know, build a site that reaches, uh, reached a 1,000,000,001 billions of people because he used like PHP and MySQL and a bunch of libraries that were all…
Bootstrapped to $30m By Acquiring Smaller Companies for 2x, How Question Pro Did It
- ▶ 7:45 Vivek Bhaskaran Oh, it's written in, you know, PHP and something else.
Episode 642 | The Pros and Cons of Building a No-Code MVP
- ▶ 15:16 Rob Walling 20 years ago, I was coding these from scratch in Perl, PHP, whatever.
Episode 631 | Re-writing Your Codebase, Stair Stepping, and Diffi...
- ▶ 3:07 Rob Walling He tells me which stack it is, but I will tell you it's either Django with Python, Ruby on Rails, PHP Laravel.
1 Employee, $600k ARR, How He's Scaling with Systems for Marketing Collateral SaaS
- ▶ 5:17 Josh Newman Help us with my very rudimentary PHP skills.
Hacker Buys a SaaS Project for $7,500, Now Does $120,000 in Revenue
- ▶ 14:49 Norbert Huthmeyer That's a Kotlin and a PHP backend.
Language Optimization SaaS Hits $23k MRR in 6 Months, 9 FTE's, $3m Valuation
- ▶ 10:24 Nadia Fischer He used to be the global release manager of PHP, so that's also really cool when we, you know, when we're looking for tech talent, it's never a problem to find anyone.
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:21 Dalton Caldwell That the way they scaled Facebook was to have a completely separate PHP instance running for every school that they copy and pasted the code to.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Daniel Jakaitis Founder of Chatkick
- ▶ 1:33 Andrew Gazdecki What's your opinion on PHP version one? 2 times in the scene
From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw
- ▶ 46:06 Ramon Van Meer So it's like, um, I know how to read PHP and HTML
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.
Episode 547 | Private Podcasting, Apple's Announcement, and Accelerating Growth with Craig Hewitt
- ▶ 20:02 Craig Hewitt In hindsight, the thing we did right is we didn't try to peel off one of our developers that is a PHP developer to go learn React Native is we just said, hey, let's go spend the 20 grand that this will cost and hire the specialists.
Episode 505 | 42 Side Projects and the #NoCode Movement
- ▶ 5:48 Rob Walling So while I still hack, I mean, I'll hack PHP on the weekend just for kicks or to hit an API or like I started teaching myself Python maybe a year and a half ago, you know, then I went and started TinySeed, so got distracted, but I agree.
How to Resurrect Innovation in the Enterprise // Amr Awadallah, Google (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 32:38 Amr Awadallah PHP.
1607 Why She Said No To Vista Equity Despite $10m in ARR
- ▶ 5:50 Lauren Hall I had to re-engineer that platform to start again because it had been built in ASP.classic, not in a PHP or .net.
Helping African Businesses Get Paid, Shola Akinlade of Paystack · Y Combinator
- ▶ 44:01 Shola Akinlade They have some one or two PHP services.
EP 533: $1.5M Raised, $100k MRR Helping 800 Customers Manage and Track Documents with CEO Tim Samulet
- ▶ 16:50 Tim Saumet (Tim Salme) Um, the, uh, the stack is, uh, Ruby on Rails, uh, for the API, um, Angular for the front, and we have also a lot of integration for Salesforce, for instance, so it's post.com, uh, SugarCRM, so it's PHP, et cetera, et cetera.
Technical Co-Founder Hits $35k in MRR, Won't Sell for $10m Today, EP 264: Gil Allouche
- ▶ 2:44 Nathan Latka PHP? 2 times in the scene
This is How Much Revenue Ontraport Does with Landon Ray
- ▶ 15:47 Landon Ray Uh, you can learn PHP or, or, or rails or whatever it is.
The Acceleration of Innovation in Big Data w/ Stefan Groschupf, Datameer
- ▶ 5:25 Stefan Groschupf But their challenge obviously back then was, um, that they, the quantity of people at Facebook was PHP and MySQL developers. 2 times in the scene
20 VC 085: Mark Suster @ Upfront Ventures on Being A Super Entrepreneur Driven VC
- ▶ 3:59 Mark Suster You can take PHP.
Panel discussion // Data Driven NYC #9 // Nov 2012
- ▶ 13:00 Nick Walter Obviously we've optimized our, you know, PHP and MySQL stacks very, very well, but, you know, we're not necessarily built like a semantic big data company would be that needs to process hundreds of millions of rows, like, every day.
Panel: Metamarkets, Kaggle and Quid // Data Driven NYC #4 // Mar 2012
- ▶ 51:56 Mike Driscoll When he ultimately implemented it, he had to write it in PHP, with no libraries. 2 times in the scene