Ellie Schleifer
Co-founder & CEO, Trunk. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Eli Schleifer is the co-founder and CEO of Trunk.io. He previously co-founded Directr and held engineering leadership roles at Uber, YouTube, and Microsoft.
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Everything Ellie Schleifer said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Schleifer: Raising VC is significantly easier than pre-selling an unbuilt product
“I mean, if you're going to say what are the different approaches, it's a lot easier to go raise money from VC than it is to go and pre-sell customers on a product. That's like, you know, a straight up answer on that one.”
Schleifer: Landing code feels like 'death by a thousand paper cuts'
“Once you hit like any amount of scale in your organization landing code gets really hard. It's tedious. I kind of describe it as like death by a thousand paper cuts.”
Schleifer: Google coordinates tens of thousands of engineers in one monorepo
“Having been at Google, it's like, it's amazing. You have tens of thousands of engineers landing code all day long in a monorepo and it works.”
Companies must treat internal developer tooling as products, not just firefighting
“I think that the right way to do this is like as a company to take on that responsibility to approach this from a product perspective and not just the firefighting, but to be like, okay, if you're going to build this as a product and not just as a tool, not ju…”
Schleifer: Every repository language should be uniformly linted across all machines
“Every single language, every technology in a modern repository should be checked for a static analysis, formatting, linting the same exact way in every single engineer's box.”
Saving a developer two hours monthly easily justifies developer tooling costs
“Engineers are insanely expensive, right?
they're only getting more expensive.
And if you can return even like two hours of productivity per engineer per month, you've, you know, paid your paid your way easily.”
Uber ATG required 30 developer tools engineers to support 600 engineers
“We had 600 engineers at Uber ATG. We had 30 engineers supporting them as dev tools that experience space and landing code is really hard.”
Schleifer: Trunk.io closed a funding round from Andreessen Horowitz in January 2021
“So we raised we raised money from Andreessen Horowitz. We closed that round back in January.”
Schleifer: Trunk.io's entire 11-person startup team consists strictly of engineers
“Everyone is an engineer, right?”
Schleifer: Trunk.io split equity equally among four co-founders
“We are, we're four founder co-founders that put the thing together.
That's, yeah, that's how we did it.
We're an equal team of a group”
One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Ellie's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.
| Show | Role there | Eps | Statements | Record | |
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 TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER | Co-founder & CEO, Trunk | 1 | 11 | 100% 1/1 | full record on Top Founders → |