Visual Basic, every mention
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TBPN 6
the a16z Podcast 5
We Live to Build 3
In Depth 3
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 2
Top Founders 2
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 2
the Neon Show 27 more shows
every year every show TBPN 6 the a16z Podcast 5 In Depth 3 We Live to Build 3 the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 2 the Neon Show 2 WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 2 Top Founders 2 
Founder's Journal 1 
Latent Space 1 
My First Million 1 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 1 
Big Technology 1 
20VC 1 
A Product Market Fit Show 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Visual Basic comes up on TBPN, the a16z Podcast, In Depth, We Live to Build, the Y Combinator Startup Podcast
IPO Giga Boom, World’s Fairs of the Past | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 18:45 unnamed speaker I was writing visual basic.
Why Rule-Breaking Is the Only Rule in Venture Capital | Ashmeet Sidana, Engineering Capital
- ▶ 1:06:27 Ashmeet Sidana It will have as much impact as Visual Basic had on the nature of software development. 2 times in the scene
The Future Of Brain-Computer Interfaces · Y Combinator
Siri needs an App, OpenAI Acquires health startup Torch, Claude Cowork reactions | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 22:38 John Coogan Some numbers, uh, sort of make sure all the formulas held, and over the internship, over the couple months, I wrote more and more visual basic so that my job went from eight hours on the first day to four hours to eventually it was like 15…
Why Only “WTF” Products Can Survive Today with Brett Queener Partner at Bonfire Ventures
- ▶ 6:12 Brett Queener And I built a custom database on the old people in the room, like Access, Visual Basic, and Fox Pro, where I built a
Marc Andreessen & Amjad Masad on “Good Enough” AI, AGI, and the End of Coding
- ▶ 55:31 Amjad Masad Um, but it wasn't until Visual Basic that I started.
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 5:02 Abhinav Asthana So back then, you know, visual basic was the original no code software. 2 times in the scene
Vibe Coding: Everything You Need To Know — With Amjad Masad
- ▶ 2:24 Amjad Masad You know, there's Visual Basic.
How his $2B startup grew to $10M+ ARR with zero marketing. | Avery Pennarun, Founder of Tailscale · PMF Show
- ▶ 8:17 Avery Pennarun Versus, like, Microsoft built Access and Visual Basic around the same time, right?
Ep #23 | WTF are Consumer Electronics? | Nikhil ft. Carl Pei, Rahul Sharma & Amit Khatri · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 28:46 Rahul Sharma It was Learn VB in 21 days. 2 times in the scene
AI Can Write Code, But It Can't Do Architecture
- ▶ 3:21 Sean Weisbrot And I took a C, I took, I took a C++ class in high school because my brother convinced the tech teacher for the school that I already knew Visual Basic that he taught me it, but he hadn't.
Amjad Masad on Replit, AI Agents, and the Death of Traditional Software.
- ▶ 9:24 Amjad Masad You actually, you had that in the past where like the Apple ecosystem kind of makes a lot of decisions for developers and even windows as much of as we, we, uh, you know, look down on it, but, uh, you know, visual basic was a great product.
The Businesses Making $$$ off Disaster Relief
- ▶ 2:02:35 John Coogan Uh, learning Visual Basic, which does a little bit of, it's programming language, uh, and it, and it can automate Excel, and, uh, and it works in the background. 3 times in the scene
Building AGI with OpenAI's Structured Outputs API
- ▶ 1:17 Michelle Pokrass I worked at a bank, and I learned Visual Basic, and I, like, animated bond yield curves, and it was, you know, not, not.
Inside marketing at Stripe, OpenAI and Retool | Krithika Muthukumar (VP of Marketing at OpenAI)
- ▶ 15:30 Krithika Muthukumar You know, at Retool, we put out these beautiful explainers about the history of Visual Basic, about the history of Yahoo pipes, which are sort of spiritual
Building Technology With Infinite Scale
- ▶ 8:17 Brett Adcock You know, so I started working, I, I basically been building technology businesses for last, like basically since middle school and high school, um, like, you know, working in Visible Basic to, to, to building little small startups in high…
Someone Moved the Net Every Time He Scored
- ▶ 33:49 Sean Weisbrot So my brother like convinced the teacher that I had experienced, like my brother had taught me virtual basic. 2 times in the scene
From $300k to $35M+ Selling Dog Ramps with Ramon Van Meer, CEO & Founder at Alpha Paw
- ▶ 46:00 Ramon Van Meer And at the, that time I had to learn visual basic that language doesn't even exist anymore.
Cocaine, Coding, and Cashflow, The Truth about Dan Martell
- ▶ 10:46 Dan Martell The first thing I ever built that people paid me for was, um, I built it in visual basic three or four visual DB four, which was a tool for somebody to install on their computer and make a CD, like a mix CD, an MP three CD based on the…
Ironman Software Hits 1500 Customers, $300k Revenue Selling Powershell Microsoft Tool
- ▶ 7:09 Nathan Latka So I understand you built, you said you built this for visual basic, uh, visual studio, visual studio.
Jeremy Rossmann of Make School on Income Share Agreements and the Future of College · Y Combinator
- ▶ 10:19 Jeremy Rossmann He was like, Jeremy, here's a book on visual basic.
Clippy: The Unauthorized Biography
- ▶ 28:57 Steven Sinofsky And so POGO is like a, uh, it's a VB program in Excel five, uh, which is the 16 bit version of Excel that existed at the time they were shipping. 2 times in the scene
a16z Podcast | Containing the Monolith -- From Microservices to DevOps
- ▶ 2:21 Florian Leibert And frankly, it's more joyful to write Visual Basic than it is to write Go, right?
a16z Podcast | Coding as Literacy
- ▶ 3:59 Chris Granger Um, but no, it was different, so the nice thing is, uh, back then if I had written that in C++, you know, I would have never gotten anything done, but back then we had VB-Six, right, Visual Basic Six,
20 VC 063: What It Takes To Standout In A Crowded Market with Ezra Galston @ Chicago Ventures
- ▶ 1:57 Ezra Galston I know you've got a lot to pack into 20 minutes, but, um, but so from, uh, I guess from a very young age, I taught myself, uh, visual basic.