Jay Kreps
10 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 26, 2026 by Jay Kreps · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Mar 26, 2026 negative
Kreps: There is no business in selling pure open-source software
“And so, you know, if you're trying to sell a product which is purely open source, you know, effectively The price of that product should collapse to the cost of providing it, which is basically kind of a scale of zero, right? So, so there's no business in sell…”
Mar 26, 2026
Kreps: Engineering decisions are knowable, early startup decisions are unknowable
“Certainly for engineering decisions. They're mostly knowable and there's mostly kind of right and wrong answers, but usually, especially the early phase of the company, you're making a lot of kind of very big critical decisions with a lot of unknowable aspects…”
Mar 26, 2026
Mar 26, 2026
Kreps: Half the challenge in ML products is data infrastructure, not models
“Half the problem in any of these products is actually not the machine learning stuff. It's actually just the data, like Getting, getting it, being able to work with it at scale, being able to apply it, being able to do that in the context of like a real runnin…”
Mar 26, 2026 negative
Kreps: Extreme vendor lock-in lets infrastructure vendors over-extract value
“I think it is the case that some of these early infrastructure offerings, you know, that it goes too far where the lock-in is so tight that the vendor can actually, you know, extract in some sense more than the value they create because moving off of it is suc…”
Mar 26, 2026
Kreps: Demanding a three-month timeline forces engineering teams to break assumptions
“If you kind of just go back and say, well, okay, you know, what would the three month version of it look like? Maybe that's totally impossible, but a significant portion of the time, there is something you could do in three months. And what would that be? Is t…”
Mar 26, 2026 positive
Kreps: Startups can amplify founder-led sales by hiring early-stage IC reps
“And I think that's really a worthwhile investment of, you know, I think you can kind of amplify The founder led sale thing quite significantly with just a few people. But you need people who have been successful in early companies where they just.”
Mar 26, 2026 positive
Mar 26, 2026
Kreps: Managers who recruit their own teams are massively more successful
“So I found that to be very true in hiring where, you know, people who just, you know, act like they have, they, you know, they just have to fight for their life to go hire this team by themselves as if there was no recruiting support and they're just really de…”
Mar 26, 2026 negative
Kreps: Existing Customer Pressure Naturally Starves Second Products
“I think inherently that a second product is always. Kind of irrelevant to people's main goals, you know, and the, all the pressure of a business is to satisfy the customers that you have, the big prospects coming in the door, that, that kind of main flow of bu…”