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every year 2023 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 
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All-In 5 
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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
The Race to Build the Ultimate AI Programmer | Poolside CTO Eiso Kant
The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- ▶ 45:03 Beyang Liu Ruby, or Python, or basically any other programming language that exists.
Intel's CEO Shares His Plan To Win The AI Chip War — With Pat Gelsinger
- ▶ 4:04 Pat Gelsinger So if I can run that Python code, as it's called, you know, the key language in this case, then, well, I'm going to go compete at that.
Making sense of advanced nuclear’s stumbles
- ▶ 6:46 Eric Wesoff Going from Cobalt to Fortran or a new Python compiler, we have these hordes of software developer billionaires thinking that they can disrupt the nuclear industry just like you can disrupt the software industry, and I think they're going…
The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)
- ▶ 27:49 Inbal Shani And then Python came. 2 times in the scene
Doubling Down on Founder-Led Sales with Pilot's Waseem Daher
- ▶ 5:10 Waseem Daher So when we do it again the following month, well, we run Jessica's Python script, some stuff happens, the humans do the rest, so on and so forth, and over time, you know, the computer's doing more and more and more, and the account…
Episode 688 | Growing Boot.dev From $6k to $110k in Monthly Reven...
- ▶ 25:24 Lane Wagner And we happen to have this course on go and this course on Python or whatever, but like the messaging was all extremely generic because you like to tell yourself that this thing could be big, right?
No Priors Ep. 41 | With Imbue Co-Founders Kanjun Qiu and Josh Albrecht
- ▶ 9:25 Josh Albrecht Can I just write a piece of Python code that does this, right?
- ▶ 19:54 Sarah Guo If you want to focus on a particular problem, like let's say like Python two to three upgrades or something, right?
Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
- ▶ 3:29 Lenny Rachitsky If you're a data person, you probably have to jump between different tools to run queries, build visualizations, write Python, and send around a lot of screenshots and CSV files. 2 times in the scene
For Microsoft, AI is an ‘unlock’ for decarbonization
- ▶ 7:34 Hannah Green And so that to me is sort of the second unlock is we can get curious about our systems, about our networks, about our business, and we can ask questions of our data without you being a Python coder, without a Python coder sitting next to… 2 times in the scene
Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- ▶ 1:15:46 Michael Royzen Stricter prompting language, like a prompting markup language for prompting models is something I'm also very interested in, um, because we've written some very, very complex prompts, particularly for a VS code extension, um, to like, to…
18 Month Old Startup Already Has 3 Customers Paying $100k/yr. Is AI over valued?
- ▶ 16:20 Ram Chowdhury Um, I code and understand Python a lot.
Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
Powering your Copilot for Data - with Artem Keydunov from Cube.dev
- ▶ 17:14 Artem Keydunov It's just a set of YAML files with pythons.
- ▶ 33:39 Artem Keydunov In terms of the problems, I think, I've been chatting about it with a few people, so they try just kind of, you know, like, if math is required to do math, you know, like, outside of, you know, like, ChatGPT itself, so it would be, like,… 3 times in the scene
What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)
- ▶ 3:08 Lenny Rachitsky If you're a data person, you probably have to jump between different tools to run queries, build visualizations, write Python, and send around a lot of screenshots and CSV files. 2 times in the scene
The End of Finetuning — with Jeremy Howard of Fast.ai
- ▶ 31:32 Jeremy Howard Um, you know, GitHub Actions, I can write now in Python, which is just so much easier than writing them in TypeScript and stuff, so.
- ▶ 1:00:41 Jeremy Howard A whole bunch of shit, you know, like, I would, it's amazing, but it's awful, you know, compared to what it could be. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:07:12 Jeremy Howard It's, it's good at doing, so phi-one in particular is good at doing a very specific thing, which is creating very small Python snippets.
- ▶ 1:12:55 Jeremy Howard They've written, like, 6000 lines of Python code, um, and it's, uh, to, um, help it play chess.
Moonhub’s Nancy Xu Unveils the AI Recruiter That’s Beating LinkedIn
- ▶ 3:48 Nancy Xu I need someone in the Bay Area, and they need to have some experience with Python, and I want someone who, you know, worked at a Series A company before. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:56 Nancy Xu Um, so this allows you as the end user to look for things like, hey, show me people who currently work at an early stage startup in the Bay Area who's familiar with Python. 2 times in the scene
RAG is a hack - with Jerry Liu of LlamaIndex
All-In Summit: AI film and the generative art revolution with Caleb Ward
- ▶ 4:59 Caleb Ward From creating Python scripts for visual effects workflows,
Improving AI with Anthropic's Dario Amodei
- ▶ 4:19 Dario Amodei I think the thing that really surprised me was the Python programming where the, you know, the conventional wisdom was that these models couldn't reason at all. 4 times in the scene
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.
All-In Summit: Tobi Lutke on consumer spending, teams, Amazon, AI, and more
- ▶ 3:22 Tobi Lütke Um, um, outside of, uh, Python notebooks and, and companies like Shopify.
A guide to building product in a post-LLM world | Ryan Glasgow and Kevin Mandich from Sprig
- ▶ 1:08:41 Kevin Mandich Like, for example, asking your LLM to write Python code that will add to 16 plus 32.
No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
No Priors Ep. 29 | With Inceptive CEO Jakob Uszkoreit
- ▶ 20:36 Jakob Uszkoreit Programs that might look like some bit of Python code that specify what you want a certain medicine to do inside yourself, inside yourselves, and translate those programs, compile them into descriptions of RNA molecules that then hopefully…
Richard Socher: The 3 Biggest Barriers to Building AGI; AI Startups vs Incumbents | E1050 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 34:46 Richard Socher You can look for Python Fibonacci function or something on, on Google versus on you.com.
Reinventing Search with AI: Richard Socher on Building You.com & the Future of Google
- ▶ 23:53 Richard Socher You know, if you look for, uh, some programming thing, like you want to use Python to implement, implement the Fibonacci direct computation function, you can go to Google,
The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway)
- ▶ 59:07 Austin Hay They know Python.
How We Scaled Founderpath to Process 200 Million Rows of Financial Data Per Day
- ▶ 14:34 Charlie Martin So our, our thing that calculates is Python, because it's data science. 2 times in the scene
Why I Would Invest In These Startups
- ▶ 16:05 Alex Lieberman His bio is sculptor, programmer, JavaScript, Python, PHP.
The 25 problems you don't need to solve
- ▶ 10:14 Derek Steer There was stuff like this, you know, 12 Python data visualization libraries.
Building LlamaIndex: Jerry Liu on Scaling Retrieval-Augmented AI
The Single Platform for Everyday AI - Fireside Chat with Florian Douetteau (Dataiku) & Matt Turck
- ▶ 11:37 Florian Douetteau But of course, if you are more like kind of like a coding person, if you want to take things into control, if you want to use or integrate your own specific algorithm or piece of code, I'll do some, uh, whatever, a sequel for…
Will poor data hold back the potential of AI on the grid?
- ▶ 50:22 Titian Palazzi But now, I don't know if any of you who are not coders have tried, but it's crazy how easily you can transfer natural language to code, especially like SQL. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 23 | With Snowflake's CEO Frank Slootman
- ▶ 32:57 Frank Slootman Streamlit is, is a company that does visualization animation, um, you know, for, for Python applications, but specifically in the world of machine learning. 5 times in the scene
Ep 18: Petaflops to the People — with George Hotz of tinycorp
- ▶ 30:50 Shawn Wang You have an interesting design, uh, deviation from him, because he's decided to be a, well, promised to be a superset of Python. 2 times in the scene
AI for climate: a real world test
- ▶ 3:42 Shayle Kann A couple months ago, on a whim, I think, Duncan played around with ChatGPT to try to write some Python code to dispatch an imaginary battery using a few key conditions.
- ▶ 15:12 Duncan Campbell Here's a Python package that does that well.
- ▶ 19:38 Shayle Kann Can you just talk through, like, as you're teaching it, are you requesting bits of Python code each time to reflect that, or are you just saying, here's a thing that I think you need to know, and it would say, yes, I understand, and then…
- ▶ 22:27 Duncan Campbell It actually, you know, picks certain Python packages to use, shows you how to import them and name them.
- ▶ 34:31 Duncan Campbell So I didn't know whether, should we try to build this up from scratch, you know, connect it to all these different data sources, use some kind of, you know, Python regression library, or is there like just some good open source
- ▶ 44:52 Duncan Campbell So this is a Python notebook.
Embedded AI: The Questions Every CEO is Asking
- ▶ 8:26 Barry McArdle And it wrote me a SQL query that did that, or you can say refactor this Python code to be a function and it will do that for you.
- ▶ 22:42 Barry McArdle We, again, we have thousands of people already writing SQL and writing Python and doing data work and hex every day.
- ▶ 27:39 Barry McArdle One is we do have a pretty great data advantage, you know, already having hundreds of customers, thousands of users writing millions of lines worth of SQL and Python.
Entering the Data-Centric Era of Foundation Models with Alex Ratner, Co-Founder & CEO of Snorkel AI
- ▶ 17:26 Alex Ratner And this can be done via Python.
A Conversation with Chris Wiggins - Author of "How Data Happened"
- ▶ 17:51 Chris Wiggins Um, marketing, so when we market on other advertising platforms, that is done not using guessing and pointing and clicking, but using Python and optimization.
- ▶ 20:55 Chris Wiggins That said, there is also a lot of work being done in AWS, and plenty of developer work happening on Amazon's Cloud, um, so the data stack is, in my team, the data stack is SQL and scikit, and occasionally Go, so it's scikit-learn is, is a…
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.
Lockheed Martin (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:47:57 Waseem Daher For me, the very concrete example recently is I wrote some elaborate Python script to sync data between our CRM and
Episode 662 | Selling for Five Years of Runway, Profit vs. Revenu...
- ▶ 21:11 Rob Walling Screw around with AI and crypto and Python sentiment analysis APIs.
Ep #4 | WTF is ChatGPT: Heaven or Hell? | w/ Nikhil, Varun Mayya, Tanmay, Umang & Aprameya · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 31:14 Varun Mayya But the, what I find the coolest part about AutoGBD is it can use any Python script in existence. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 37:13 Tanmay Bhat Like it could be, you want a python script. 6 times in the scene
Generative AI for Speech Recognition | AssemblyAI Founder & CEO, Dylan Fox
No Priors Ep. 10 | With Copilot's Chief Architect and founder of Minion.AI Alex Graveley
- ▶ 16:20 Alex Graveley He was able to say like, oh, you know, like it doesn't work most of the time, but here it is doing something, you know, here's, here's, it was only Python at that time. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep. 8 | With Neeva’s Sridhar Ramaswamy
- ▶ 13:28 Sridhar Ramaswamy And fire off a Python interpreter for doing this or some other API.
Beyond Avatars: How AI is Reshaping Online Identity (Danny Postma and Sinead Bovell)
- ▶ 31:08 Danny Postma I'm learning Python, learning all the things to develop it.
- ▶ 34:54 Danny Postma I didn't know Python, I didn't know machine learning, and I had to learn all those kind of things so I could build my own models in that sense.
Global Investing in Tech: Pattern Recognition, Founder Traits, Momentum | Field Notes by Connie Chan
- ▶ 25:53 Chris Schroeder So, you know, the, the number of people who are migrating their technology from whatever they were using to Python and did it all with GPT-III.
Startup Acquisition Stories with Nico Jeanne, Founder of Galeby
- ▶ 8:24 Nico Jeanne So, uh, to do like very advanced stuff with AI, you need like, like, you know, bike knowledge in machine learning, Python, and I have like a few basics, but nowhere what I need to, to really, um, yeah, to really make it what it could be.
Brainstorming ChatGPT Business Ideas With A Billionaire | ft. Dharmesh Shah (#438)
- ▶ 16:12 Dharmesh Shah Or if it's like compile code, let's say it generate Python code, you can give it the error message.
- ▶ 41:49 Dharmesh Shah Well, I mean, so language wise, the most common is Python that seems to have emerged as like lingua franca of the AI world.
Not Just Another Cloud Database | SurrealDB Co-Founders Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock
- ▶ 3:17 Jaime & Tobie Morgan Hitchcock As an embedded database, so being able to run that within Python, within Rust, within C, and query your data locally, but also importantly, as a cloud database,
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?