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Shopify CEO on How AI is a Scapegoat for Mass Layoffs & Trump Derangement Syndrome in Canada · 20VC with Harry Stebbings May 4, 2026 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:52 Tobi Lütke You can actually, I mean, first of all, you learn that anyway, and then all the various tasks, your handy sidekick AI will, um, will access your co-founder, will just tell you.

Dreamer: the Agent OS for Everyone — David Singleton Mar 20, 2026 · 30 mentions

  • ▶ 5:09 David Singleton The first thing that happens is you'll have a conversation with your sidekick, which is this little friendly character here, and sidekick will seek to get to know you and understand you, what do you care about, and will help you discover… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:00 David Singleton But in natural language with the Sidekicks help, you can change any of these experiences to work just the way you want them. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 10:35 David Singleton Psychics just gonna start a conversation about what you want to build together. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:08 David Singleton In which case, you just start telling the sidekick how to change it. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 19:48 David Singleton We call them sidekick tasks because they actually run in the context of the sidekick. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 48:03 David Singleton And again, sidekick can guide you through building, uh, agents and apps that work that way. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 50:34 David Singleton So, uh, first of all, at the core of Dreamer is the sidekick. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 57:49 David Singleton So Tidekick understands you and puts in the right order.

20Product: How AI Changes Product Design | Does the Design Phase Become Irrelevant in a World of Vibe Coding | The Five Pillars of Truly Great Product Design with Carl Rivera, Chief Design Officer at Shopify Nov 14, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 38:42 Carl Rivera I find that the biggest thing that bothers me in the tooling right now, and I'll say that this applies to design, but also even in how like Shopify integrates AI through Sidekick, is how stuck you become in a modality.

OpenAI o1 isn’t a chat model (and that’s the point) Jan 17, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:39 Ben Hillock So like after, after the sort of initial high for context, like I had, um, when we first started our company, we had like a super early co-gen plugin in VS code called sidekick.

No Priors Ep. 49 | With Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates Jan 31, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 12:34 Elad Gil So have you thought about how to do that adoption as well as, um, how, how have you thought about that in the context of launches like Sidekick and Shopify magic and things like that?

How Tettra hit $1m ARR for its internal knowledge base tool Aug 26, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 0:00 Andy Cook Uh, so if Sidekick was like the free tool for sales, uh, lead in, which is now called HubSpot marketing hub starter or something, uh, that was the free tool for marketers.

2 Billion People Use a Super App That Isn't One Jul 12, 2022 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 4:13 Sean Weisbrot So the, I don't know if I told you this on our original call, but what, what I was trying to do with Sidekick before it became Nerve was something very similar, except the events and the calendar weren't really part of it. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 42:42 Sean Weisbrot So, so what we decided to do was now again, we have the benefit of this knowledge because the architecture we're using for our B to B platform is actually our original sidekick architecture, which was an end user messaging platform, which…

Every Startup Thinks Its Baby Is the Cutest in the Room Oct 12, 2021 · 3 mentions

  • ▶ 14:50 Sean Weisbrot The original name was Sidekick and it was suggested by my advisor. 3 times in the scene

The Phantom Stock Plan Founders Use Before Going Public Apr 13, 2021 · 1 mention

The 90-Second Story That Gets Investors Curious Enough to Ask Apr 6, 2021 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 12:01 Sean Weisbrot So when I was doing the brand identity for Sidekick, I, in my own planning, had an idea of what I wanted to call certain features in order to, uh, will not only have the names of those features inside of the product when the user is trying… 4 times in the scene

The Bezos Yawn Factor: Why No-Code Will Feel Mundane Soon Mar 24, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 25:14 Sean Weisbrot Well, if you build the tool, don't forget to have a, uh, powered by Sidekick or something, something over there.

The 3 Things She Gives Her Team That Nobody Ever Gave Her Mar 12, 2021 · 2 mentions

The Truth About Funding 2,400 Companies in 70 Countries Mar 4, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 40:58 Sean Weisbrot Maybe I'll, I will definitely keep that in mind when I start to think about how I'm going to use the money I'm making from Sidekick in a few years.

The Warm Intro Hierarchy Investors Won't Tell You About Feb 18, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 11:42 Sean Weisbrot I read something recently and I, I've been doing my own seed round fundraising for sidekick.

Why Credit Cards Took 35 Years — And Crypto Won't Jan 26, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:50 Sean Weisbrot The wallet address and the private keys are confusing for people because one of the problems with the user experience that I found that I was trying to solve with the first iteration of Sidekick with, uh, was tying the user's identity.

$3M in 12 Months With 5 Employees — Here's the Model Jan 22, 2021 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:56 Sean Weisbrot I mean, I, I spent a year and a half, uh, with sidekick building something that then I realized while it's great, I need a tremendous, like I was partially down the FinTech line and would need.

45% of This Cancer Drug Was Fake — Here's How We Proved It Dec 28, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 24:14 Sean Weisbrot When I was talking to investors last year for the first version of Sidekick before we pivoted, one of the first questions every investor asked was, oh, who else is investing?

Why Dogfooding Your Own Product Exposes What All Your Data Misses Dec 15, 2020 · 1 mention

Too Much Publicity Can Kill Your Business — Here's Proof Dec 10, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 2:05 Sean Weisbrot We were in Malta, a very beautiful island for a blockchain conference where I was trying to promote the upcoming launch of the, what I believed would be Sidekick.

The Secret Weapon That Quietly Beats Every Competitor Dec 3, 2020 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 48:04 Sean Weisbrot So, it's very interesting to see, and it makes me hopeful that I could sell Sidekick later in the future for a number that is also, uh, very fair.

The Real Root of Burnout Isn't Workload — It's Unworthiness Dec 3, 2020 · 1 mention

Why 'Life Has No Purpose' Is the Most Freeing Thing You Can Believe Oct 14, 2020 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 4:36 Sean Weisbrot And it's funny because the original concept I had for Sidekick was this artificially intelligent system that could communicate with you. 4 times in the scene

No Way This Fitness App Worth $8m With No Revenue with Ashu Dubey of GetApplause EP 212 Mar 31, 2016 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 16:31 Ashu Dubey So the online tool that I recently came across, and it's a really good one, uh, is, uh, is called Sidekick by HubSpot. 2 times in the scene

20VC FF: Hiten Shah on VC Funded vs Bootstrapped Businesses and How He Decides Which Startups To Advise Mar 4, 2016 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 23:37 Hiten Shah I am super impressed with, um, what Brian Balfour has been doing, uh, at HubSpot, uh, at HubSpot with the product sidekick.
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