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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Stack Overflow comes up on Top Founders, the a16z Podcast, Startups For the Rest of Us, Latent Space, the Official SaaStr Podcast
Jensen Huang Declares AGI Has Arrived | Tesla Launches Cybercabs | Index Pulls Out of Town
- ▶ 22:33 Jason Lemkin There is too much, and there, and there, and there was no stack overflow from, you had Westlaw and Lexus and other services.
GPT-6 & OpenAI’s Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer’s Scandalous Legacy
- ▶ 34:25 Ranjan Roy That was like, uh, kind of like, I think old school German stack overflow type site, which must have been such a scene.
Inside the Fastest-Growing Category in AI: Scott Wu, CEO of $26B Cognition · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
The Future of Software & AI | Cognition’s Scott Wu
Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math
- ▶ 1:01:45 Carina Hong Sometimes I think in this dead end square free walks case, which is nothing to do harmonics, complete axioms fall, um, that we actually didn't realize, and then Professor, um, kind of Sander-Rorgen actually pointed to us and to Professor…
Tokenmaxxing: How Top Builders Use AI To Do The Work Of 400 Engineers · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:03 unnamed speaker Way back, just having Stack Overflow as a website that you could consult when you got stuck on a programming problem felt, like, amazing. 2 times in the scene
$100M+ Advice That'll Piss Off Every Business Guru (ft. DHH)
- ▶ 43:48 David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) I used it as a pair programmer, as a better Google, as a better Stack Overflow, as a, here I have a problem.
The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 3:09 unnamed speaker I think back in the days, old days, before all of this, DevTools were chosen more from developers talking to each other, or, uh, Stack Overflow. 2 times in the scene
Voice AI’s Big Moment: Top Researcher on Why Everything Is Changing (Neil Zeghidour, Gradium AI)
- ▶ 57:11 Neil Zeghidour So you don't have Wikipedia, like, uh, you know, in speech data, you don't have Stack Overflow, Reddit, and so on.
How I Built a $12K/Month Micro-SaaS
- ▶ 2:31 unnamed speaker So I went into Stack Overflow and learned JavaScript in one day, and by the end of the night, I hacked out a Photoshop script.
We're All Addicted To Claude Code · Y Combinator
- ▶ 9:39 Garry Tan The thing is, it's winning the internet, and it was like that before when it was like Stack Overflow, searching Google, and then now that nobody uses Google anymore, it's like crazy.
- ▶ 36:39 Garry Tan I think that we might need a clod code that could like talk to a Stack Overflow that was like a 3 times in the scene
#2296 The $7 Million Vibe Coded App
- ▶ 16:12 Andrew Warner It was you coding like an amateur developer, but where you, where, where some people might Google things or go to stack overflow. 3 times in the scene
#2294 He Claude Code: Build Me a YouTube Replacement
[State of AI Papers 2025] Fixing Research with Social Signals, OCR & Implementation — Team AlphaXiv
- ▶ 2:26 unnamed speaker Stack overflow analogy for, for archive papers that surely there are other undergrads out here that have these questions.
No Priors Ep. 142 | With Harvey Co-Founder and President Gabe Pereyra
- ▶ 10:23 Gabe Pereyra Like you had to go on Stack Overflow.
#2285 AEO: How to make ChatGPT promote you
- ▶ 27:06 Andrew Warner Uh, Quora, Stack Overflow, those communities, all helpful.
- ▶ 37:19 unnamed speaker Um, depending on the category, there might be some domain specific stuff like for engineers, stack overflow, uh,
Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine: Here's How Writing Evolves In The AI Era
- ▶ 46:50 Tony Stubblebine Well, uh, I got my start in media at in media, essentially working for this tech publisher, O'Reilly back before Stack Overflow existed.
Thinking Machines Co-Founder Joins Meta for $3.5BN, Industry Venture's $665M Acquisition · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:43 unnamed speaker Because, because instead of spending an hour on Stack Overflow trying to find a library that was stolen or pseudo open source, I can do it in 60 seconds, so I just go build another feature.
Chris Dixon on How to Build Networks, Movements, and AI-Native Products
- ▶ 0:52 Anish Acharya So maybe talk about your investments in Stack Overflow, Pinterest, Instagram, and how you generally think about consumer networks. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:19 Chris Dixon Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, like a lot of these kind of interesting kind of movements, like community sites, like they're, they're often like 20,000 people, like they aren't that many, they, they aren't the millions that you might think.
- ▶ 22:50 Chris Dixon You get an, I mean, vibe coding and a lot of, you know, we were investors in Stack Overflow, which, you know, got acquired, but I think their traffic has dropped a lot because of vibe coding. 2 times in the scene
Better Data is All You Need — Ari Morcos, Datology
- ▶ 23:22 Shawn Wang Maybe Stack Overflow, even though that's cut off these days.
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 17:06 Abhinav Asthana It was kind of a mix of Stack Overflow and Quora, if you could put them together.
- ▶ 26:51 Abhinav Asthana I was active in communities, uh, like Stack Overflow or, uh, other forums where I would talk about the product or I would just be helpful to people and I would slide in, Hey, you know, I'm building this thing if you want to use it.
🕰️ The Oral History of Windsurf (ft. Varun Mohan, Scott Wu, Jeff Wang, Kevin Hou, Anshul R)
- ▶ 55:09 Kevin Hou We are the highest rated developer tool as voted in by developers in the most recent stack overflow survey.
- ▶ 2:21:50 Varun Mohan They'd already gotten good enough at searching for Stack Overflow.
Winning the AI Race Part 1: Michael Kratsios, Kelly Loeffler, Shyam Sankar, Chris Power
- ▶ 33:24 Chris Power So there is no stack overflow.
Inside Hadrian's $260M Series C to Advance Manufacturing in America · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 23:56 Chris Power And secondly, because manufacturing in the United States has been offline for 30 years, there's no Stack Overflow, there's no GitHub, there's no codebase to train on.
The AI-native startup: 5 products, 7-figure revenue, 100% AI-written code. | Dan Shipper (Every)
- ▶ 48:09 Lenny Rachitsky No Stack Overflow even back then. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:31:09 Dan Shipper Uh, Joel Spolsky who built Trello and stack overflow.
Aaron Levie on AI's Enterprise Adoption
- ▶ 43:51 Martin Casado I mean, honestly, what you did is you were like, well, not, not 25 years ago, but 10 years ago, you go to Stack Overflow, and 2 times in the scene
How I Built It: $9K/Month Micro-SaaS
- ▶ 5:00 Leandro Zubrezki And it took me two weeks, no AI, just Stack Overflow, Google, and searching for everything there.
Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George
- ▶ 20:03 Chris Dixon I was on the board of Stack Overflow. 3 times in the scene
Who's Coding Now? - AI and the Future of Software Development
- ▶ 1:47 Matt Bornstein First, people were already going somewhere to look for help, which, which we mentioned earlier is, is Stack Overflow for, for the most part. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:06 Matt Bornstein That's sort of the Stack Overflow replacement thing. 2 times in the scene
How To Get The Most Out Of Vibe Coding | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:59 Tom Blomfield It's much better than scrolling stack overflow like we all used to do.
Chasing Real AGI: Inside ARC Prize 2025 with Chollet & Knoop
- ▶ 13:09 Francois Chollet Or a replacement for Stack Overflow as well, if there's a question I need to answer.
Chris Power (Hadrian) on Building Autonomous Factories
- ▶ 5:55 Chris Power There is no stack overflow for manufacturing data.
Vibe Coding is Here - How AI is Changing How We Build Online
- ▶ 8:43 unnamed speaker Uh, like if you go on Stack Overflow before AIH, most of the question people
No Priors Ep 106 | With GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
- ▶ 11:38 Thomas Dohmke So you go to your browser and, and you find code on, on Stackableflow or on Reddit or blogs.
DeepSeek, Reasoning Models, and the Future of LLMs
- ▶ 4:09 Marco Mascorro Being trained on, on formats like, like Reddit, or like Stack Overflow, which already has a perfect format where you have a voting mechanism. 2 times in the scene
Who Will Own the Internet? a16z’s Chris Dixon on AI and Crypto
- ▶ 10:07 Chris Dixon so, you know, there's a thing Google does called one boxing, which is they would take your content and just put it, like I was on the board of Stack Overflow for a long time, and they would do this, where they would take the ant, you type… 2 times in the scene
Google AI studio replaces your AI tech stack (full demo)
- ▶ 27:43 Logan Kilpatrick Yeah, sometimes there was, like, a tutor around or something, or I could go on Stack Overflow and get yelled at by people on the internet.
JD Vance's AI Speech, Techno-Optimists vs Doomers, Tariffs, AI Court Cases with Naval Ravikant
- ▶ 1:30:21 Naval Ravikant Yeah, but, but there are entire sites like Stack Overflow and WikiHow that are basically disappeared now because you can just swallow them all up and you can just spit it all back out in ChatGPT with slight changes.
The AI Coding Agent Revolution, The Future of Software, Techno-Optimism | Amjad Masad, CEO, Replit
- ▶ 32:38 Amjad Masad So, uh, you know, uh, still a lot of people, you know, hobbyists, students that are using a platform, and so, uh, you know, a lot of code, you're just copy-pasting from sag or flow or library code, and you want to be able to understand it,…
Beating Google at Search with Neural PageRank and $5M of H200s — with Will Bryk of Exa.ai
- ▶ 27:11 unnamed speaker Twitter, Reddit, Quora, Stack Overflow, I don't know what else.
2024 Year in Review: The Big Scaling Debate, the Four Wars of AI, Top Themes and the Rise of Agents
- ▶ 32:34 Shawn Wang Journalists, writers, artists, uh, anyone who knows, owns IP basically, New York Times, Stack Overflow, Reddit, Getty, Sarah Silverman, George RR Martin.
Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
- ▶ 44:57 Varun Mohan They'd already gotten good enough at searching for Stack Overflow.
I failed 22 times... then I built a $2.5B Company
- ▶ 15:44 Christina Cacioppo You know, and you're like mostly battling JavaScript errors, trying to, and like spending a lot of time on Stack Overflow.
The Future of AI and Sales in SaaS with Henry Schuck, CEO of ZoomInfo and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin
- ▶ 51:55 Jason Lemkin Every innovation we've had in software from open source to just using Stack Overflow to co-pilots, they just get better.
Vercel's VP of Product on how to use v0 to build your own ideas (Step-by-Step Guide)
- ▶ 26:08 Lee Robinson And I was furiously Googling and Stack Overflowing things.
Is finetuning GPT4o worth it?
- ▶ 22:23 Alistair Pullen oh yeah, you can read some docs or you can read a Stack Overflow article and stuff like that. 2 times in the scene
Episode 725 | SEO in the Age of AI, Freemium, When Brand Becomes...
- ▶ 41:13 Rob Walling They're going to search, they're going to find stuff in Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange type sites.
The Winds of AI Winter (Q2 Four Wars of the AI Stack Recap)
- ▶ 34:15 unnamed speaker There, there are specific deals that are happening all the time with Stack Overflow making deals with everybody, with like Shutterstock making deals with everybody.
How Stack Overflow Secretly Made $65,000,000 on its SaaS Last Year
- ▶ 0:54 Andrew Warner How many of you have used Stack Overflow? 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:27 Prashanth Chandrasekar Uh, but we're, you know, we're growing pretty quickly, I think, in the context of our... 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:39 Andrew Warner What was the company going through that made you say, hey, we've got a successful business, we've got to shift? 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:40 Prashanth Chandrasekar The users basically said, look, we love to do this, but the thing was that when people were posting content on public stack overflow, 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:17 Prashanth Chandrasekar Yeah, so, obviously, most SaaS companies have a great outbounding machine, if you're actually good, and that, I think, is a, it's a foundational way in which you generate pipeline, so the motion of actually going and figuring out, hey,…
- ▶ 15:08 Prashanth Chandrasekar We've done sort of both over time, but as I've talked about already, a hundred million people use Stack Overflow. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:39 Andrew Warner Dude, when I was looking you up last night, the big criticism that I kept seeing was people aren't going to use Stack Overflow anymore because developers are already using AI as part of the software they're using, and you and I talked… 6 times in the scene
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Episode 714 | TRM not TAM, Acquiring a Competitor, and Finding a...
- ▶ 14:35 Rob Walling Owned, so to speak, all of the answers on Quora or Stack Overflow or Reddit or wherever this is being talked about.
$1.5M on the Line! Raising Venture Capital for the Future of Podcast Automation Software!
- ▶ 14:14 Edward Brawer With all the AI stuff, instead of using Stack Overflow, like, I'm just flying, doing all this stuff myself.
Episode 712 | Revisiting Burnout + Updates on My Progress in 2024...
- ▶ 4:54 Rob Walling Are they on Stack Overflow?
No Priors Ep. 62 | With Cognition CEO and Co-Founder Scott Wu
Episode 710 | Is Coding Dead?, The "Right" Tech Stack, Funded Com...
- ▶ 25:16 Rob Walling And maybe go to Stack Overflow or to Reddit or Quora and just Google this exact question and look to see what people are saying and just make a call.
Looking for AI use-cases
- ▶ 3:31 Benedict Evans Yeah, for that, yeah, it was a nightmare, but for that, it would have been useful, you know, advanced copy-pasting from Stack Overflow.
E168: Can Google save itself? Abolish HR, AI takes over Customer Support, Reddit IPO teardown
- ▶ 40:32 Jason Calacanis Today, Stack Overflow is now using its Overflow API to train Gemini.
- ▶ 50:41 Jason Calacanis Reddit, Quora, Stack Overflow, they're gonna just get taken out.
Future of Crypto, Blockchain & Web3 w/ Chris Dixon
- ▶ 1:16:54 Chris Dixon I mean, like to me, the canary in the coal mine was stack overflow, which my understanding, I, we used to obviously, we used to be investors before they got acquired. 2 times in the scene
Future of The Modern Analytics Stack | Tristan Handy, CEO of dbt
- ▶ 27:04 Tristan Handy Uh, insert formula and you describe the English text to what you want the formula to do and, uh, having it write the regex without you having to go to stack overflow and say like, remind me how to do email splitting regex.
- ▶ 29:16 Tristan Handy We've used get Google and stack overflow and constant recompilation until you get a success message, uh, as, as kind of the workflow there.
Vector databases and the $8 trillion open source market | Bob van Luijt, CEO of Weaviate
- ▶ 24:55 Bob van Luijt It's kind of nice that if you see, like, a blog from Stack Overflow saying that they use WebAto, oh, thank you, I use that, right?
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 16:43 Amjad Masad People in Staggerflow using it for bug reproduction.
Building an open AI company - with Ce and Vipul of Together AI
- ▶ 23:50 Shawn Wang Um, you know, Stack Overflow shut down our API, Reddit shut down our API, uh, X,
The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
- ▶ 39:16 unnamed speaker Um, you finally gave us some numbers on Stack Overflow usage. 3 times in the scene
The Four Wars of the AI Stack - Dec 2023 Recap
- ▶ 16:29 unnamed speaker The, the bigger problem I have is with Stack Overflow and Reddit, which I named as, um, on the, on the side of the New York Times. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:12 unnamed speaker Like, a unique context is, like, you know, I have Reddit info, I have Stack Overflow info, I have New York Times info.
The Origin and Future of RLHF: the secret ingredient for ChatGPT - with Nathan Lambert
- ▶ 33:35 Nathan Lambert Once you see this with instruction tuning, you really know it, which is like you take things like Stack Overflow where you have a question and an answer, you format that data really nicely, you push it through the model, the model then…
The Ultimate AI Roundtable: What Happens Now in AI, Why Google are Vulnerable | E1085 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:46 Tomasz Tunguz You could create a new travel agency, you could create a new shopping experience, you create a new stack overflow, you create a new social experience based on chat, and so it's wide open.
Episode 688 | Growing Boot.dev From $6k to $110k in Monthly Reven...
- ▶ 13:15 Lane Wagner According to the last Stack Overflow survey, there's like twice as many self-identified backend developers as front-end developers, which kind of gives you like a demand.
Beating GPT-4 with Open Source Models - with Michael Royzen of Phind
- ▶ 27:24 Michael Royzen Some internet context or something found in either a Stack Overflow post or some documentation to solve it.
E131: 2024 Fantasy President picks, debt ceiling agreement, Dollar dominance & more
- ▶ 1:25:01 Jason Calacanis Because of the hallucinations, people are making narrower models that are deeper in legal or just, you know, stack overflow, just core or just a vertical and core.
How I Helped Rippling Hire Their First 5 CSM's after $45m Series A, and lessons from Gorgias, other SaaS Brands on building CSM teams
- ▶ 17:36 unnamed speaker So you want to look at, like, GitHub, Stack Overflow, and get their email.
Building a culture of excellence | David Singleton (CTO of Stripe)
- ▶ 15:26 David Singleton You're welcome to, like, use Google to search for Stack Overflow to search for answers.
No Priors Ep. 10 | With Copilot's Chief Architect and founder of Minion.AI Alex Graveley
- ▶ 19:06 Alex Graveley Um, and, uh, at the time they were thinking in terms of like, maybe you can replace Stack Overflow or something, you know, do a Stack Overflow competitor. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:27 Alex Graveley It'd be nice, you know, be nice if you could make something that competed with Stack Overflow because we have all this code. 2 times in the scene
Buzzfeed News, Reddit and OpenAI
- ▶ 0:06 Benedict Evans And, and we thought we would talk about, well, this is sort of interesting symbolism this week in the little one hand Buzzfeed news shut down and on the other Stack Overflow and Reddit and a couple of other people said we are not okay with…
- ▶ 2:12 Benedict Evans And this is the point that Reddit and Stack Overflow and a bunch of other people are making, which is it's one thing for Google to index our stuff. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:31 Benedict Evans And so it's not just that I'm answering something that's been answered on Stack Overflow or some specific question. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:33 Benedict Evans What, what should OpenAI be paying stable, be paying Stack Overflow?
E125: SpaceX launch, Fox News settlement, "Zombie-corn" exodus to AI, late-stage implosion
- ▶ 1:21:11 Jason Calacanis Stack Overflow says they will join the parade, uh, of data providers like Reddit and Twitter that will require permission and payment to use their data sets. 2 times in the scene
Tomasz Tunguz: How I Raised $230M; ChatGPT vs. Google; How LLMs Work; Trump vs DeSantis | E1004 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 46:07 Tomasz Tunguz You create a new stack overflow.
E122: Is AI the next great computing platform? ChatGPT vs. Google, containing AGI & RESTRICT Act
- ▶ 23:38 Jason Calacanis If you look at certain data sets, Reddit stack overflow for programming,
From Zero to 100,000: How Jackson Greathouse Mastered Twitter Growth
- ▶ 16:39 Jackson Greathouse Fall Way better than like if I was just Google's like searching Stack Overflow or something like that.
Episode 649 | Learning to Sell SaaS as a Founder (Book Recommenda...
- ▶ 8:34 Pete Kazanji Like essentially what we did is we crawled like GitHub, stack overflow, Twitter, meetup, et cetera, et cetera.
A Conversation on The State of AI | Melanie Kambadur, Meta & Gideon Mann, Bloomberg
- ▶ 10:46 Melanie Kambadur ChatGPT got banned from stack overflow because it sounded convincing, but wasn't quite right all the time.
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