Glen Coates

Everything Glen Coates said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

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Coates: High percentage of Shopify R&D leaders are former founders

“When I look at like my management team, the people who report to me, who each of these sort of nine or 10 people run R and D orgs that are like a couple hundred people each and almost like a very high percentage of those people are also founders, right?”

Glen Coates Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 4:59 No Priors Ep. 49 | With Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates

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Coates: Shopify's AI rule is models can propose but never commit

“One of the principles that we have for all of the Shopify magic features today is that they're allowed to propose changes, but not commit changes, right? So they can like generate text, but they're not going to save it without you actually reading it and savin…”

Glen Coates Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 16:23 No Priors Ep. 49 | With Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates

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Coates: Human-in-the-loop AI generates a three-part feedback loop for models

“You actually get a three part signal. You get which suggestions are accepted clean, which suggestions were accepted, but then with minor edits and then which suggestions were outright rejected. And that's An amazing loop to be able to improve things through.”

Glen Coates Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 17:10 No Priors Ep. 49 | With Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates

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Coates: Shopify accounts for roughly 10% of all US e-commerce

“The fact that you can get to like 10% of all us e-commerce on like a fairly simplistic data model is actually kind of amazing.”

Glen Coates Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 19:27 No Priors Ep. 49 | With Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates

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Coates: Shopify storefronts will soon feature semantic search capabilities

“Very soon Shopify stores will actually understand the meanings of things as you, so today Shopify search is very, very literal keyword searchy.”

Glen Coates Jan 31, 2024 ▶ 22:41 No Priors Ep. 49 | With Shopify VP of Core Product Glen Coates

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Coates: Core products represent about half of Shopify's total R&D headcount

“Core is now about half of R&D in Shopify, right? And core is what the outside world would think of as like the built-in bits when you first, when you sign up for Shopify. So like the stuff you get in the box, it's like the online store, the checkout, all of th…”

Glen Coates Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 8:05 Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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Coates: Shopify Core has 2,500 employees divided into 10 teams

“Core is about two and a half thousand people, right? And there's now 10 of these teams inside core, so there are about 200 people each, which is about the Dunbar number, which is not a coincidence.”

Glen Coates Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 25:37 Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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Glen Coates quit business school after one day to focus on coding

“I basically applied to go to business school, went to business school, went for one day. And then I was like, actually, this is kind of not what I want to be doing. I'd actually rather be coding 12 hours a day. And so I quit business school”

Glen Coates Mar 8, 2023 ▶ 2:02 Glen Coates: Why Shopify Will Dominate Amazon; How Microsoft Made Smartest Move of 2023 | E986 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

The other half of the tape: Glen Coates's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 6 times in 3 episodes across the shows. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Harry Stebbings 4Nathan Latka 1Carl Rivera 1

Every mention by year

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Glen's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
20VCLEDGER	Head of App Platform, OpenAI	1	18	100% 2/2	full record on 20VC →
TOP FOUNDERSLEDGER	Head of App Platform, OpenAI	0	0	100% 1/1	full record on Top Founders →
NO PRIORSLEDGER	Head of App Platform, OpenAI	1	14	100% 1/1	full record on No Priors →