Vivek Gopalan

Partner, 8VC · 1 appearance on the record.

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At 8VC, Gopalan focuses on early-stage investments in data and software infrastructure and horizontal B2B SaaS, as well as startup incubation. Prior to venture capital, he worked as a software engineer on distributed database systems at Yugabyte and developed machine learning pipelines at Bloomberg.

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Gopalan: Software engineers now do more code review than code generation

“More software engineers are doing code review than they're doing the generation of code.”

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