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“That's why startups are ahead. They don't have to rebuild. They don't have 15 years of data. So they're probably in the future, which is why they feel like, no, no. Good stuff is wrong. The impact is really big already, and I think it is for a startup. I think…”

“So far generative AI encoding has had the most impact when you write net new code, which is a lot of what you do as a startup and a tiny bit of what you do as a big company. Most of it is just refactoring, et cetera.”

“When you run to break even, you stop doing those seven things, you go down to the two things, but those seven things and overfunding your sales force, they led to revenue is not very sustainable revenue. And so when you cut it back and go towards break, even y…”

“They're running these pretty big temporary startups that get funding from the outside world. It's like they get distribution from someone else, not themselves.”

“There's all these charts that for a given level of revenue, a company today Has significantly lower employees than a company of two years ago. And the reason is AI is doing a lot of the sales, the support, and helping to make the product.”

“You know, YC puts out this you know, quest for startups. My recommendation is like, that should be a list of startups you should not start. Because by the time that gets so consensus that this is a good area or super interesting, the amount of capital and the …”

“There's like the mercenary type, which is okay. Super smart, probably super pedigreed. And like, and really what they're doing is they are using your company as a launchpad for something else. They are using, they're using their company to like collect a bunch…”

“Everybody's going to get funded after the Cerebris IPO.”

“Building every vertical application on top of that, trying to go, like, eat every startup, eat every company, no interest in doing that really want to just provide that platform.”