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Jesse Meek

Founder and CEO, CodeLingo. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Jesse Meek is a New Zealand software developer and entrepreneur who founded Dunedin-based CodeLingo in 2016 to automate code reviews and manage technical debt. Prior to launching the startup, he was a software engineer at Canonical and worked as a researcher at the University of Otago.

1shows
1appearances
9statements
3resolved
1supported
0contradicted
33%fully supported

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

Meek: VC funding provides an advantage by enabling irrational market behavior
“Venture capital allows you to do is act irrationally in the marketplace, and that ability is what gives you the competitive advantage. Because we have this capital, we can do experiments and developments not tied to a more traditional bootstrap model.”
Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 15:24 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue
Meek: Software Knowledge Transfer Breaks Down as Teams Scale
“The core of the problem is that software developers are great at scaling up anything except themselves. So there's a core dynamic of transferring critical knowledge about the software system you're developing that works really well in small teams, but starts t…”
Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 3:05 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Partly supported
Meek: Stripe Estimates Technical Debt Costs Companies $85B Annually
“Stripe came out with a really great report in September last year. It's called the developer coefficient. They estimate technical debt to cost companies eighty-five billion dollars annually, and they estimate a developer to be spending over 17 hours a week out…”
Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 2:37 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Supported
Meek: CodeLingo raised around $700K from Reinventure and RightClick Capital
“All up, we've raised around seven, 700 K. The bulk of that came in 2017. So we raised from two venture capitalists. One was reInventure, which is backed by Westpac. That's one of Australasia's big four banks. And the other one is RightClick Capital, which is p…”
Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 7:42 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Partly supported
Meek: CodeLingo landed pull requests at Google, Uber, and Sky UK
“In the past month we've had so our bots automatically finds and fixes code. We've had pull requests landed by companies like Google, Uber, Sky UK all in the past few weeks.”
Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 9:16 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not publicly verifiable
CodeLingo raised $540K pre-seed round at a $3.8M valuation
“The first one was on a convertible note at a 1.8 mil cap. And then the second round wasn't on a note. So the second round was our pre C that was from the VCs. So that was that was just a straight. So the pre valuation was 3.8 mil. So yeah, around four mil valu…”
Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 14:04 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue
TOP FOUNDERS Assertion Not checkable as stated
CodeLingo received $2.8M in term sheets while seeking a $300K bridge
“When we went out, we're actually just looking for a bridge. We're only asking for 300 because we wanted to just a bit of extra runway to do the next round. All of, all up, all of the offers we got in we had about 2.8 mil all up in term sheets coming in.”
Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 14:33 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Meek: CodeLingo is pre-revenue following pivot to self-service SaaS
“As far as the SAS model goes, we're pre-revenue. We did have revenue with some of the enterprises we're working with, but since the post pivot, we're pre-revenue because we're trying to push a new model to go to a bigger scale.”
Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 4:49 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue
TOP FOUNDERS Disclosure
Meek: CodeLingo peaked at around $3,000 MRR from enterprise contracts
“We're talking so we're probably talking best month would be around, yeah, probably probably around three grand a month.”
Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 6:05 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue

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

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