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every year every show Latent Space 324 the MAD Podcast 232 the a16z Podcast 67 the Startup Ideas Podcast 42 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 41 No Priors 41 TBPN 40 Top Founders 38 
Lenny's Podcast 37 
20VC 33 
Startups For the Rest of Us 19 
My First Million 17 
the Neon Show 17 
Big Technology 14 
In Depth 13 
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 10 
A Product Market Fit Show 10 
Capital Allocators 10 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 8 
Sourcery 8 
Acquired 8 
the Knowledge Project 7 
Cheeky Pint 6 
Catalyst 6 
Mixergy 5 
the Green Blueprint 5 
All-In 5 
BG2 Pod 3 
American Optimist 3 
Invest Like the Best 3 
How I Built This 3 
Founder's Journal 2 
Startup Acquisition Stories 2 
We Live to Build 2 
Innovators & Investors 1 
David Senra 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Python comes up on Latent Space, the MAD Podcast, the a16z Podcast, the Startup Ideas Podcast, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
Developer SaaS Hits $112k MRR Bootstrapped using community growth strategy
- ▶ 1:10 Nathan Latka He's been a free software developer for the last 20 years, contributing to multiple open source projects and publishing several books on the Python programming language.
- ▶ 5:52 Julian Danjou I mean, our own solution, which was, you know, a Python script to automate a lot of work and growing that to a solution that can accommodate, you know, businesses, large corporations, large teams.
Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 27:53 Amjad Masad The sort of haughty assembly programmers would look down and C programmers, like people look down now on like Python programmers, for example. 2 times in the scene
The 1000x Developer with Amjad Masad
- ▶ 35:32 Amjad Masad I think of a hundred days of Python. 3 times in the scene
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.
AI and product management | Marily Nika (Meta, Google)
- ▶ 27:14 Marily Nika I, I was actually giving talks ages ago at Coding Dojo about Python, and all it takes is just a few weeks of your time and passion and just
Genius Bootstrapper Hits $1.7m ARR, Raised $300k But Kept 100% Equity, How?!
She built secret software to add $4m in deal volume to her brokerage last year
- ▶ 5:36 Nathan Latka And the next person needs to start from scratch because they have, you know, they want to build on Python instead of SQL or whatever, right?
Episode 640 | Hot Take Tuesday: Recession and Bootstrappers, Chat...
- ▶ 15:11 Tracy Osborn I mean, it's kind of like, my husband's an author of, of the popularest, whatever word, of Python open source project, your lib three. 2 times in the scene
Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
- ▶ 38:04 Gergely Orosz Like, like it's, it's just a very simple Python script that I wrote for myself.
Melanie Pickett – Modern Technology in the Investment Office at Northern Trust (Capital Allocators, EP.281)
- ▶ 32:04 Melanie Pickett So we've completed an effort to completely roboticize using Python and robotics, going out and getting the documents off the portals and pulling them into our systems automatically.
Fundamentals of Data Engineering | Joe Reis and Matt Housley
- ▶ 14:41 Matt Housley Or, yeah, yeah, data engineers really need to know Spark, or they need to know Python, or they need to know Pandas, or Snowflake, or whatever technology it is.
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.
- ▶ 20:33 unnamed speaker I initially built my SaaS app in Python and Django and specifically did that for the productivity gains that I get out of a, out of a language like Python. 2 times in the scene
Dropbox CEO Drew Houston: How to Pick a Co-Founder; Steve Jobs' Attempt to Buy Dropbox | 20VC #938 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:17 Drew Houston And I started writing some code, some Python code, uh, on that ride.
Modern Data Orchestration | Astronomer Co-Founders Pete DeJoy & Viraj Parekh
- ▶ 4:14 Viraj Parekh To where we are now, where we have folks like Steve State Startups, all the way through larger retailers that encode their business logic in Python with these Airflow DAGs.
- ▶ 4:25 Viraj Parekh And, you know, Airflow was designed for this kind of Python-based job scheduling, but if we think about the personas we went through before, that's really only the first step, and orchestration's a little more than that, or a lot more than… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:26 Pete DeJoy And, you know, there, there definitely is a theme there in that, you know, Airflow kind of emerged as this really incredible, we think the best in the world tool for Python
- ▶ 18:12 Pete DeJoy So I can see both my tasks, i.e. those SQL queries and Python functions I just ran, predict user trends, and I can introspect the tables that they're actually producing in my snowflake instance under the hood.
- ▶ 22:52 Pete DeJoy So, I mean, we have a Python, or excuse me, like a CLI client that allows you to just run those deployments.
A Novel Approach to Data Quality for the Modern Data Stack | Datafold’s Gleb Mezhanskiy
- ▶ 15:58 Gleb Mezhanskiy We can also run it in Python.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:43:31 Ben Gilbert It was, I think you can write in Python or Java
Bootstrapped to $1m in Under 18 Months, How he's growing his ATS SaaS
- ▶ 9:18 Taylor Bergen So for example, if you're hiring a senior software engineer, just say your tech stack is react and Python three, but you know that you don't have the bandwidth to really bring on someone that has to ramp up.
How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu
- ▶ 54:57 Crystal Widjaja I think our, our first real growth experiment, we were actually still the data team at this time, was to connect a quick Python script to the Twilio API that we had access to.
How To Come Up With Billion Dollar Business Ideas | Hubspot Co-Founder Dharmesh Shah
- ▶ 34:48 Dharmesh Shah He's 11, right? 3 times in the scene
The Next Layer of the Modern Data Stack | dbt's Tristan Handy
- ▶ 21:49 Tristan Handy It's executing on Snowflake, or this is a Python-based data transformation.
How He Earns 3Cr/Year At The Age of 20? Ft. Ishan Sharma, Co-Founder of MarkitUp
- ▶ 5:38 Ishan Sharma I came back, and I immediately opened up Udemy, got the first best-selling course of Python, and I started learning programming. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:39 Ishan Sharma I learned Python, then I eventually got into data science and machine learning, then I realized that machine learning is a field in which I have to do a lot of research, and that's not something that I want to get into in my first year of…
- ▶ 21:57 Ishan Sharma I made a playlist on Python on my YouTube channel itself. 2 times in the scene
HubSpot Founder Dharmesh Shah: The Ultimate Guide to Company Culture | E896 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 12:39 Dharmesh Shah The culture code, um, was my kind of manifestation of, if I could write an operating system, literally write Python code, let's say, uh, to run the company and help make decisions and do these things, this is what it would be, right?
- ▶ 26:31 Dharmesh Shah 2 times in the scene
Elon's Twitter Takeover and The Future of Social Media with Sriram Krishnan
- ▶ 1:05:19 Sriram Krishnan And you always had this kind of, you know, BDFLs, these benevolent dictators for life, like Puedo for Python and Linux for Linux.
Estonia Has No Income Tax for Companies - If You Never Declare a Profit
- ▶ 21:08 Patricia Recarte Who writes in Python, I need to be paying like 300 K for someone who has 10 plus years experience.
Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State
- ▶ 29:21 Balaji Srinivasan In Python, you know, there's like Python notebooks that do this.
Drunk Business Ideas That Could Make You Millions
- ▶ 27:44 Shaan Puri I'm, you know, I'm using Python. 3 times in the scene
DevOps Tool Fig Raised $2.2m in 2020, Now Approaching 100k MAU's, Whats Next?
- ▶ 7:05 Brendan Falk So big open source projects, specifically languages like Python have a benevolent, benevolent dictator for life.
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?
Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now
- ▶ 4:35 Ellie Schleifer They have their core languages and they have a bunch of supporting bash scripts and Python scripts.
FTX with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele (Extended Cut) · Acquired
- ▶ 5:08 unnamed speaker I've spent basically my entire adult life quite rooted in the Python community, and that served us well for bringing together a great team with that expertise in that ecosystem.
Luke Ellis – The Man Behind The Man Group (Capital Allocators, EP.214)
- ▶ 42:00 Luke Ellis I think the last number is more than half of the firm has an active Python license. 2 times in the scene
12 Startups Where Stock Grants Can Make You a Millionaire | My First Million #220
- ▶ 23:01 Shaan Puri I'm gonna learn Python. 2 times in the scene
Husband Wife Team Taking on Drizzly, Hit $1.5m Run Rate, Ecomm for Alcohol
Episode 563 | The Struggle, Calls to Action, Selling Above $1M ARR, and More Listener Questions
- ▶ 18:27 Rob Walling Hey Rob, I recently launched a niche info product, a book on learning Python and data science with baseball stats. 2 times in the scene
Why You Need a Chief Automation Officer | My First Million #208 with Steph Smith
- ▶ 42:11 Steph Smith So it's just like a Python automation course, because I believe in this idea of like automating every possible thing in your life that you don't need to be the one doing.
Episode 556 | Rails Autoscale
- ▶ 11:34 Adam McCrea Can I use this with Python?
Fireside Chat: Abe Gong (Founder & CEO, Superconductive) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 14:21 Abe Gong It's JSONs, Python APIs,
- ▶ 17:05 Abe Gong Uh, the primary backends that Great Expectations runs on are Python pandas.
- ▶ 22:22 Abe Gong And there are a bunch of things that, uh, you can do once you have all the power of, you know, SAS at your disposal, and it's not just a Python library, uh, that, that will lend themselves to much better data collaboration.
Fireside Chat: Nick Schrock (Founder & CEO, Elementl) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 12:08 Nick Schrock So Dexter works is an open source Python project.
Deep Fake Tech Pivoted from $0 Last Year, $24m Raised, CEO teases new round
Balaji on How to Fix the Media, Cloud Communities & Crypto | MFM #178
- ▶ 14:21 Balaji Srinivasan For example, you complete five Python problems and you get a badge that says I've completed five Python problems and, uh, you complete, you know, 10 questions on
Fireside Chat: Florian Douetteau (Founder & CEO, Dataiku) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 11:33 Florian Douetteau Meaning people doing Python or R on an everyday basis.
Episode 545 | The Value of Learning 80/20 Design Fundamentals
- ▶ 4:53 Tracy Osborn Django and Python, and those things are changing so, so fast that, um, a publisher wouldn't want to upkeep that.
The State of the Cloud: 2021 with Bessemer Venture Partners | SaaStr Software Community
- ▶ 45:40 Mary D'Onofrio And whether it's Firebolt and data warehousing coiled in Python based data analytics or imply data in real time analytics, the opportunities are endless.
Fireside Chat: Savin Goyal (ML Infra team (Metaflow), Netflix) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 9:04 Savin Goyal So, you know, Metaflow ultimately at the end of the day, it's a Python package, uh, as well as an R package, because, uh, the users that we have internally, uh, they use either Python or R to get their work done. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:18 Savin Goyal Uh, we have essentially focused on Python and R.
Introducing Kedro
- ▶ 8:06 Kedro Product Manager Um, we've got a Python virtual environment set up. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:13 Kedro Product Manager So a node in Kedra world is just a Python function.
Fireside Chat: Wes McKinney (Founder & CEO, Ursa Computing) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 0:22 Wes McKinney So pandas serve sort of as a, as a Swiss army knife for, for data access, data, data manipulation, analytics, and data visualization in Python. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:50 Wes McKinney So it, people use it for, uh, not only loading the data into Python, but also the data cleaning, the, you know, what we call data preparation.
- ▶ 4:25 Wes McKinney Um, so it's, it's, you know, tends to be interactive, uh, very flexible, uh, and enables you to, to work with, uh, you know, datasets from a general purpose programming language like Python. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:08 Matt Turck And all of this is, is in the context of the, of the Python world. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:10 Wes McKinney So, uh, you know, I was interested in this problem and I'd experienced it from the perspective of pandas and the Python ecosystem, like wanting to build bridges from Python into all of these other, all of these other systems. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:43 Matt Turck And that's Python. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:58 Wes McKinney So traditionally data comes into your, uh, into your Python interpreter, into your, into your R interpreter, your process, and you immediately have to convert it into, um, into some other, into some other format.
- ▶ 16:46 Wes McKinney They have one thing to think about and we can, on the Python side, we can deal with like, okay, you know, I know how to optimize getting data into pandas so we can maintain that for them and their developers don't have to solve that…
- ▶ 18:12 Wes McKinney They said, you know, make Python work better with, with all of this big data.
- ▶ 21:50 Wes McKinney Spark, uh, Spark supports Arrow as a, as an interchange format, and it's used heavily in the interface with Python and R, for example. 2 times in the scene
Fireside Chat: Alok Gupta (Head of Data Science & ML, DoorDash) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 7:24 Alok Gupta We use Python and Databricks to, uh, and Spark to pull data in, build models. 2 times in the scene
Modigie Gets You Accurate Prospect Cell Numbers, Hits $300k ARR, 29 Customers
LeadGenius Hits $10m in Revenue, Growth Slow at 50% YoY Considering $25m Raised
- ▶ 19:06 Prayag Narula Python Django.
Fireside Chat: Jeremiah Lowin (Prefect), Tristan Handy (dbt) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 18:56 Tristan Handy All the technologies that are required to do a good job of answering those questions, whether that's, you know, sometimes Excel, sometimes SQL, sometimes Python or R, um, but they don't self-identify as technologists. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:28 Jeremiah Lowin Uh, standpoint and it, it made us realize we've kind of pushed this like batch DAG static workflow, probably as far as it can go, like from the old, from YAML and then into Python.
Fireside Chat: Ashley Kramer (CMO & CPO, Sisense) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 7:51 Ashley Kramer They said, there are hundreds of thousands of people with coding skills like SQL R and Python.
- ▶ 25:40 Ashley Kramer And so coming soon, we will also integrate the rest of the notebook like experience, being able to put Python and R within the experience and instantly get your insights.
Episode 511 | Raising Prices & Re-writing Your Codebase
- ▶ 8:28 Mike Ritchie They're not planning to learn Python.
Fireside Chat: Nate Stewart (CPO & BOD at Cockroach Labs) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark)
- ▶ 26:26 Nate Stewart So right now we have a getting started with a CockroachDB course, and we're in the process of building our, um, you know, how to build a CockroachDB app using Python course.
Episode 505 | 42 Side Projects and the #NoCode Movement
- ▶ 4:34 Helen Ryles I mean, my kind of development experience is quite limited in terms of my day job doesn't really require any kind of coding, but I've kind of done a little bit of Python, a little bit of Ruby on Rails, enough to kind of spaghetti code my… 2 times in the scene
Inkit Breaks 100 Customers, $1m in Revenue Helping Companies With Direct Mail Campaigns
- ▶ 5:23 Michael McCarthy So Abram and Aaron helped build some of the very first open source Python frameworks that actually ended up being used to build Reddit.
11 SaaS Companies, Dane Takes Paperless Pipeline to $2m Revenues, Launches Start From Zero Framework
- ▶ 21:46 Dane Maxwell Um, and then if you, so if you go to like, um, so Python is what Google was coded on. 4 times in the scene
Brett Jefferson – Inefficiencies in Structured Credit at Hildene Capital Management (First Meeting, EP.19)
- ▶ 1:05:55 Brett Jefferson Just things which you shouldn't, and this is about, you need to have a process to take all this information and organize it and come up with a thesis to react, and that's something which I've been doing, figured out how to do a while ago,…
Designing an AI Supercomputer // Michael James, Cerebras (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 13:36 Michael James Here we're just taking these structural graph models that come out of some Python framework.
How to Resurrect Innovation in the Enterprise // Amr Awadallah, Google (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 32:19 Amr Awadallah Uh, Python.
Metacorn: How to Build a Platform that Fuels an Ecosystem with Plaid Co-Founder/CEO Zach Perret
- ▶ 24:09 Zach Perret Um, and of course, in the, in the initial, uh, meeting with him, uh, we decided that Python would be much more effective in doing the analysis we needed to do.
Data Science Is A Literacy, Not A Job // Peter Wang, Anaconda (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 3:22 Peter Wang You know, because Python is too, too hard. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:19 Peter Wang That's really no better than spending an afternoon learning Python, right? 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:02 Peter Wang And, um, and so the software, uh, there's this great quote about platforms, I forget who it comes from, but they said that ultimately successful platforms seek to commoditize their complement, and so what we have is we sort of stumbled… 6 times in the scene
Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
- ▶ 15:15 Craig Cannon Yeah, no, I mean, I got stuck learning Ruby, and then I often attribute Python to my learning, but I think actually it was learning Python while I was friends with people who were much more technical than I was.
Fireside Chat: Solmaz Shahalizadeh, VP of Data Science & Engineering at Shopify (Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 8:37 Solmaz Shahalizadeh So, um, we basically moved from, uh, using Vertica, uh, to building a ETL tool in-house using, uh, Spark, uh, and, uh, Python. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:34 Solmaz Shahalizadeh Like most of them come with knowing Python or R and we do a very good, uh, onboarding or we put a lot of effort in our onboarding.
- ▶ 32:11 Solmaz Shahalizadeh There's, uh, like, um, packages in Python being written.
Analyzing Billions of Transactions to Understand Consumer Behavior - Michael Babineau and Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 31:06 Michael Babineau We can, like, we're happy to help, uh, uh, to help people get onboarded with, like, using Python.
Gabriel Weinberg: Practical Steps to Safeguard Your Data and Identity Online
- ▶ 1:29:51 Gabriel Weinberg And, uh, yeah, my oldest is in, in a Python one.
The Case for Hiring More Analysts // Benn Stancil, Mode (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 16:18 Benn Stancil So rather than being something that's like, hey, here's a Python notebook, which is great for an analyst, but terrible for a CEO. 2 times in the scene
Seven Trends in Blockchain Computing (Spring 2019)
- ▶ 5:26 Chris Dixon And what that means is now that all the blockchains are supporting WASM, that means that all of these, these compilers that are built from other programming languages, um, you know, Python, Rust, whatever, pick your favorite language, you… 3 times in the scene
#56 Daniel Gross: Catalyzing Success
- ▶ 1:24:41 Daniel Gross So we're trying to basically operationalize all of this in Python and Ruby.
1341 Reverse merger on australia stock exhange
- ▶ 1:06 Noah Abelson Gertler Uh, Python, Django, um, and then the rest I would say talk to our development team.
a16z Podcast | Voting, Security, and Governance in Blockchains and Cryptonetworks
- ▶ 33:12 Phil Dayan You can just run this 20 line Python script and you can profit off of users in a way that was maybe not foreseen and is not sort of explicitly stated to them because of how inefficient these mechanisms are.
Inside the Apple Factory: Software Design in the Age of Steve Jobs
- ▶ 1:27:27 Frank Chen The, the suite of interview questions you typically encounter when you're interviewing for jobs are about linked lists, and do you know TensorFlow, and can you program in Python, or whatever, as opposed to, what's good?
a16z Podcast | The IQ and EQ of Robots
- ▶ 9:12 Boris Soffman We've already released to our early customers an SDK that allows them to interface with vector through Python.