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Startups For the Rest of Us 14
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the Official SaaStr Podcast 9
How I Built This 8
the a16z Podcast 7
Top Founders 6
the MAD Podcast 5
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every year every show Startups For the Rest of Us 14 Latent Space 13 the Official SaaStr Podcast 9 How I Built This 8 the a16z Podcast 7 Top Founders 6 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 5 
Lenny's Podcast 5 
My First Million 5 the MAD Podcast 5 
David Senra 4 
In Depth 3 
the Knowledge Project 3 
No Priors 3 
20VC 3 
the Startup Ideas Podcast 2 
A Product Market Fit Show 2 
Capital Allocators 2 
Startup Acquisition Stories 1 
Cheeky Pint 1 
All-In 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Ruby comes up on Startups For the Rest of Us, Latent Space, the Official SaaStr Podcast, How I Built This, the a16z Podcast
Shipping Enterprise AI Agents with the CPOs of Rubrik, Glean, and Harvey
- ▶ 19:53 Chief Product Officer, Rubrik So we're gonna pull up this, what we call Ruby, which is our AI agent for operating our platform. 2 times in the scene
AI Is Learning to Hack. Faster Than We Expected.
- ▶ 19:43 Dylan Ayrey I mean, how do you think about an organization that's, like, thinking about what technology stack to use, and they're picking between Ruby or NPM?
DHH: How to Build a Profitable Company Without Losing Control
- ▶ 50:05 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) And I did exactly the same thing with Ruby back in the day. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:07 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) And I will also apply it in reverse on my own accord that if I know something about programming, about using Ruby or about using Linux,
Shopify: Tobias Lütke. How a snowboarder built a $150 billion business (2019)
- ▶ 17:29 Tobias Lütke And so, I've always, there's been this programming language called Ruby, which I just absolutely loved. 5 times in the scene
GitHub’s Agent Era: 14x Commits, 200M Developers, Copilot’s Next Act — Kyle Daigle
- ▶ 45:46 Kyle Daigle Just like I wanted to be a part of the Ruby community when Ruby was popping off when I started becoming a developer, and now I can just click the star button. 2 times in the scene
$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- ▶ 0:25 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) If I talk to a bunch of programmers, it's all about Ruby and Rails.
- ▶ 58:02 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) And then finally, I'd say, uh, Matz, who created Ruby back in the nineties, 4 times in the scene
Retrieval After RAG: Hybrid Search, Agents, and Database Design — Simon Eskildsen of Turbopuffer
- ▶ 8:56 Shawn Wang I tried learning Ruby.
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 36:13 Brian Armstrong And I had to re-implement like a whole Bitcoin node in, um, in Ruby just to try to get it to hook up to my database, you know, and all these things.
We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
- ▶ 43:08 Calvin French-Owen And I don't know in terms of like a Ruby, for example, like who has the best model there and who's incorporated the data mix. 2 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 59:54 Amjad Masad Let's do it for Ruby.
Genspark's Super AI Agent is INSANE
- ▶ 30:12 Greg Isenberg Um, I picked Ruby, who to me sounded like the least AI voice, although a lot of the voices are a little AI sounding.
Tobi Lütke is still captivated by internet commerce, 20 years later
- ▶ 1:17 Tobi Lütke I think the sort of core part of Shopify, um, with all the, uh, like, like, minor stuff like the identity system and all these kind of things is like, 20 million lines of code, and then the, uh, TypeScript written admin interface is like…
The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)
- ▶ 52:01 Shawn Wang Because you use Ruby.
AI and Cybersecurity: Scaling Rubrik to a Billion Dollar Enterprise with Rubrik's Co-Founder and CTO
- ▶ 13:31 Arvind Nithrakashyap And that's what we call Ruby is kind of this AI companion for, for our, uh, for our SaaS platform.
ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual
- ▶ 14:10 Alexander Embiricos I mean, it is funny that there is, um, just briefly on the note of like, don't use Ruby or not, there's like a bunch of things that I think teams can do to like, make better use of AI agents. 2 times in the scene
Claude Plays Pokémon Hackathon: Escape from Mt. Moon!
- ▶ 29:25 unnamed speaker It is written in Ruby. 2 times in the scene
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 17:17 Thomas Dohmke We have the machine language layer, you know, which is Python or Ruby or Rust, right?
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?
Vibe Coding Is The Future · Y Combinator
- ▶ 27:50 Jared Friedman And, and like Ruby is an incredibly slow language, even like technically slower than PHP, which was already too slow.
Agent Engineering with Pydantic + Graphs — with Samuel Colvin, CEO of Pydantic Logfire
- ▶ 31:53 Alessio Fanelli So, you know, my favorite Ruby library is VCR.
Episode 751 | TinySeed Tales s4e2: From Developer to Manager
- ▶ 5:44 Rob Walling You have PHP, you have Ruby already.
Going Multi-Product in the Age of AI with CPOs of Webflow, Rubrik, Zoom, and ProductBoard
- ▶ 11:19 Anika Gupta Other places are looking into our own product and saying, well, if we add a AI assistant, which we call Ruby into our product, how can we help people 2 times in the scene
Building a $20B+ Open Source Business with MongoDB and Viam's Eliot Horowitz
- ▶ 11:24 Eliot Horowitz We went to the Ruby meetup.
0 to over $8M ARR in 2 months as a Claude Wrapper (Bolt.new, Qodo)
- ▶ 1:25:55 Shawn Wang We've talked about Python forever, Ruby maybe. 2 times in the scene
Jase Auby - Risk, Size, and Talent at Texas Teachers (EP.404)
4 profitable startup ideas you can launch tomorrow
- ▶ 18:36 Greg Isenberg So then he's put this, this chart of basically the fastest growing and highest paying jobs in 20, 24, Python, marketing, node, backend, TypeScript, sales, Ruby, React, non, non-tech, JavaScript, customer support.
How to Bootstrap from 0 to Millions in Revenue w/ Ilya (CEO & Founder, Vanhack) · PMF Show
- ▶ 22:21 unnamed speaker So we didn't know that in the beginning, cause we just, we're just getting started in the beginning was all about like, Hey, I have this Ruby engineer 2 times in the scene
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 49:25 Amjad Masad Like, can you run Python and Ruby in the browser, right?
The "Normsky" architecture for AI coding agents — with Beyang Liu + Steve Yegge of SourceGraph
- ▶ 42:09 Alessio Fanelli I spent most of my career writing Ruby, and I love Ruby, it's so nice to use, but, you know, it's not as performant, but it's really easy to read, right? 2 times in the scene
A masterclass in engineering leadership from Carta, Stripe, and Uber | Will Larson (CTO at Carta)
- ▶ 9:44 Will Larson Undocumented strategies at Stripe was we use a Ruby monolith. 2 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
- ▶ 1:09 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, I think you're one of the first developers of Ruby, actually, and really commercialized, and, and Toby built
No Priors Ep. 30 | With Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
- ▶ 31:43 Guillermo Rauch We saw this for Rail, Ruby.
Episode 663 | 5 Insights SaaS Founders Should Know About A.I. (Ig...
- ▶ 20:40 Rob Walling It becomes, I think of it, I mean, there's a ton of examples we could use, but like, remember when Rails came out for, for Ruby? 3 times in the scene
Episode 661 | Millions in Revenue As a One-Person Software Compan...
- ▶ 9:53 Mike Perham Cause I think there was maybe one other person who was selling Ruby code at the time.
- ▶ 11:41 Mike Perham That history lesson there was the previous five years where I had been blogging about Ruby, so I, I was consistently blogging every month about various Ruby topics, and my blog was getting popular. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:08 Mike Perham I've created another background job system, which is not based on Ruby, because the one thing your audience may not know is that Sidekick is specific to Ruby. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:22 Mike Perham I'm on Mastodon with the, the majority of the Ruby community now.
Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
- ▶ 49:11 David Singleton So, um, for what it's worth at Stripe, we write a lot of code in Ruby. 4 times in the scene
Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:57 Amjad Masad But then you go from C to like something like, uh, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, that era that started in the late nineties,
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.
Startup Acquisition Stories wtih Ryan Kulp, Founder of Fork Equity
How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)
- ▶ 17:29 Ben Williams I think it's a well-proven playbook now, particularly in the developer tooling space, like New Relic did it notably with Ruby community, for example, but ultimately it was important because of this kind of depth versus breadth approach.
Episode 631 | Re-writing Your Codebase, Stair Stepping, and Diffi...
- ▶ 7:39 Rob Walling If it had been in Rails, I would have left it in, in Ruby.
How To Innovate Faster with Community: Insights From GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij
- ▶ 1:44 Sid Sijbrandij He used Ruby, subreddit, and later Twitter to get interest from the developer community.
Episode 556 | Rails Autoscale
- ▶ 12:00 Rob Walling Like, what if over the next five years, you know, Ruby, or Rails, like itself, becomes just less popular?
#88 Derek Sivers: Innovation Versus Imitation
- ▶ 46:36 Derek Sivers So, you know, idea is on one line or maybe two or three lines, but whatever it is, I hit enter twice to leave, uh, two line breaks before the next idea so that later I can write a little Ruby programming script to parse them when needed.
Tyler Tringas: How Earnest Capital Hopes to Re-Invent Startup Investing
- ▶ 39:27 Nathan Latka You post in the New York city Ruby meetup group, uh, a title, a blog post that said unsexy profitable SAS business for sale or partner. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Basecamp Founder David Heinemeier Hansson on Why It Is The Biggest BS To Chase Being A Unicorn, His Relationship to Wealth and Status and Why Now More Than Ever It Is A Myth Entrepreneurs Have To Raise VC
- ▶ 47:13 David Heinemeier Hansson I enjoy writing Ruby code, and making Rails, and making Basecamp, and now we're making this new hey.com email service, and I'm excited about that, and I hope I still get to do that in five years.
How to Resurrect Innovation in the Enterprise // Amr Awadallah, Google (FirstMark's Data Driven NYC)
- ▶ 32:37 Amr Awadallah Ruby.
Founder's Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks
- ▶ 25:41 Julian Lemoine We did the first version of the analytics, 200 line of Ruby code, one hour of development, super good investment, and this analytics is also business critical because we use it for the billing. 2 times in the scene
Shopify: Tobias Lütke
- ▶ 19:27 Tobias Lütke And so I've always, there's been this programming language called Ruby, which I just absolutely loved. 3 times in the scene
Engineering Your Own "Luck": The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite
Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:02 Jeremy Rossmann They don't want people who've just learned a trade, who know how to assemble Ruby code today.
- ▶ 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)
- ▶ 9:03 Matt Turck That's, um, because initially you were a big Ruby shopper, right? 2 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.
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… 3 times in the scene
1190 The 1 Metric GitLab CEO Follows Thats Driven $10m+ in ARR
- ▶ 1:43 Nathan Latka Originally a computer programmer for a personal submarine company, Sid was first introduced to GitLab while working as a self-taught Ruby programming developer.
- ▶ 5:59 Sid Sijbrandij I always wanted to do programming, but it always seemed tedious, and then I saw Ruby, and the way it was written, and it was beautiful. 2 times in the scene
#41 Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery
- ▶ 10:22 Shane Parrish You were part of the core Ruby team, right?
A Fresh Approach to Technical Computing // Viral Shah & Stefan Karpinski, Julia Computing
- ▶ 1:41 Stefan Karpinski Usually kind of nasty C code, but it got the performance you needed, and then finally, because I was doing all of this on a big cluster, and shuffling files, and sockets around, and throwing it into a database, and trying to figure out…
20 VC 085: Mark Suster @ Upfront Ventures on Being A Super Entrepreneur Driven VC
- ▶ 4:01 Mark Suster You can take Ruby.
Mike Abbott, KPCB // Data Driven #30 // Oct 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital)
- ▶ 2:18 Mike Abbott but actually Benchmark convinced me to hold off doing that, and, ah, went to Twitter, and, ah, redid the infrastructure there, moved the, helped the company move off of Rails, off of Ruby, and built the engineering team from, like, 60 to…