Gil Feig
Co-Founder & CTO, Merge. On 2 shows, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Gil Feig co-founded Merge in 2020, developing a unified API platform for B2B applications and AI agents. Prior to Merge, he served as Head of Engineering at Canvas and worked as a software engineer at Wealthfront and LinkedIn.
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Gil Feig: Custom agent harnesses and workflow builders will become obsolete very soon
“You see a lot of people trying to build, like, a custom harness, or, You know use something like a workflow builder to build agents that are repeatable and all of that. And I just ultimately think none of it matters because we're almost at the point now where …”
Feig: AI agents cannot be trusted without hard data-leak guardrails
“We don't trust agents. We say, Hey, we can try to set rules, but there needs to be hard guardrails and blocks for things like sensitive data being sent across.”
Feig: AI Startups Raising at 100x–1,000x Multiples Will Face Failure and Layoffs
“We know specifically, like we know the numbers, we know sales figures for some of these companies raising at Hundreds of millions to billions, and again, we're looking at thousand x to, you know, hundred to thousand x multipliers, like, a lot of these companie…”
Feig: AI Coding Tools Shift Hiring Toward High-Agency 'Barrels'
“It used to be that, you know, a team that had a barrel of a PM or a manager and a bunch of ammunition could get a lot done, But now that you kind of can have one person just go use, you know, Codex, Cloud Code, whatever, to go build something, you really just …”
Feig: Open-source supply chain attacks will surge as AI agents flood pull requests
“Agents are pushing a ton of code. You don't have enough humans to read all that code, and so things are slipping by, things are getting in, and one of them was a vulnerability that gets injected into an open source package that everybody relies on and uses, an…”
Feig: Startup Leaders Must Master AI Tooling Hands-On
“If we are the leaders of this company, we have to know everything there is to know about how AI works, how you build with AI so that one, we are more effective and two, we're building for where the puck is going.”
Feig: Merge screens candidates for AI enthusiasm rather than advanced tool usage
“We ask about it in the interview process. So what we're not looking for is I use the latest cutting edge, but we're looking for, you know, hey, I use it to code sometimes. My company doesn't let me use it to do all these things, but I really want to. That's wh…”
Feig: AI integration buyers understand their technical requirements far less than SaaS buyers
“When people are buying us for AI use cases, they actually don't really know what they're looking for as much as it was in the past, right? Like we would, yeah, you know, two, three years ago, we go to sell our unified platform to, you know, a classic SaaS comp…”
Feig: Enterprise trust in AI models is rising despite cloud multi-tenancy reservations
“Over the past year, You've seen people use the models, trust them more, and now everyone's backing away from that language, but there's still a lot of reservations now around using anything AI in the cloud, and so still demands for, no, we want this running in…”
Feig: AI token maxing leads to severe CFO bill shock
“You're seeing a lot being built, but then the bill comes to the CFO and it's actually really brutal and way worse than they expected. And even if they got double the productivity, they might not have had double the budget for headcount and they, you know, Spen…”
Merge's internal tooling allows non-engineers to build product integrations
“Engineers and non-engineers are able to build integrations here because of a lot of the tooling we've built.”
Merge prevents churn by guaranteeing two-week turnarounds for new API integrations
“We've never lost a customer to not having an integration and we promise free two to three week turnaround on new integration.”
Merge is pivoting away from usage-based pricing due to volume unpredictability
“We are going to start moving towards instead of API requests, because it can be kind of unpredictable. Certain platforms might require you to make tons. We're going to be moving to more towards a flat rate. So you don't have to worry about like the nuances of …”
Feig says Merge targets a different market than Tray and Workato
“I think that that's like, I think that, you know, it might be a little bit of overlap, but overall it's just a different market and I don't think we're making them irrelevant.”
Feig: Merge integrations are strictly API-based with no scraping
“And we're all API based only. So we're built from enterprise from the ground up. We're built to scale up to enterprises. So all API based, no scraping. We're not doing things like that.”
Feig: Merge Built Agent Handler With One Engineer and Founders
“Building our next product agent handler, we had one engineer and me and Shensi, and we were helping on nights, weekends. We did whatever we could have because we needed to contribute.”
Feig: Merge Faced 1,000 Bot Signups Scanning Endpoints in One Hour
“Yesterday I had to manually go in and intervene because we all of a sudden had over a thousand bot signups in, in, like, an hour, and we could see them actively scanning all the endpoints across our backend.”
Gil Feig: Wiz found vulnerability accessing every hosted repository via single git push
“Basically Wiz found that they were able to do a single git push of a file and gain access to every single repository hosted on the platform.”
Merge charges one cent per API request on pay-as-you-go plan
“We offer our pay as you go plan. So it's one cent per API request.”
Merge charges a couple thousand dollars monthly for supported enterprise plans
“It's on the order of a couple grand a month for our enterprise plan. Or it's not quite enterprise. It's more of like a plan where you require support and customer onboarding.”
Feig: Merge added 20 integrations in its first launch month
“We spent six months just building up the platform. We didn't have a single integration. And then in January alone, we added 20 integrations.”
Feig: Merge maintains 45 to 50 integrations, adding 2-3 weekly
“I believe currently we have around 45 to 50. We add like, I would say probably about two to three a week”
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