startup

also referred to as: startups

7 statements across 6 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Sep 20, 2023 by Shawn Wang · across every show →

Everything said about startup, oldest first

Sep 20, 2023 negative
Opinion
Swyx: Early-stage startups should replace their marketing sites with their app
“I'm quickly developing an opinion, by the way, that I think all early stage startups should not have a marketing site. Your .com should just be your app.”
Shawn Wang Sep 20, 2023 ▶ 47:15 Generating your AI Media Empire - with Youssef Rizk of Wondercraft.ai
Feb 7, 2024
Insight
Most early-stage startups die from losing motivation, not running out of money
“I think that's actually true in most startups. Actually, it's like most startups die in the early stages, not because you run out of money, but really because you run out of motivation.”
David Hsu Feb 7, 2024 ▶ 8:39 The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
Feb 7, 2024 bullish
Opinion
OpenAI would decisively defeat any AI startup competitors
“I think if I was competing in startups, OpenAI would win for sure. Like, at this point, OpenAI is so far ahead from both a model and a pricing perspective that, like, there is no reason for it to go really, I think, in my opinion, at least, a startup model.”
David Hsu Feb 7, 2024 ▶ 49:48 The State of AI in production — with David Hsu of Retool
Feb 19, 2024 negative
Insight
Startups Must Build Deep Infrastructure Rather Than Thin Kubernetes Wrappers
“And so one of my frustrations has been like so many startups are like, in my opinion, like Kubernetes wrappers and like, you know, like, and not very like thick wrappers, like fairly thin wrappers. And I think, you know, every startup is a wrapper to some exte…”
Erik Bernhardsson Feb 19, 2024 ▶ 1:07:30 Truly Serverless Infra for AI Engineers - with Erik Bernhardsson of Modal
Dec 13, 2024 neutral
Insight
Varun Mohan: Buying rather than building permanently sacrifices core technical competencies
“When you go out and buy, you're losing a core competency inside the company. And that's a core competency you can never get. It's, or it's very hard. Like startups are so limited on time.”
Varun Mohan Dec 13, 2024 ▶ 56:59 Windsurf: The Enterprise AI IDE
Feb 11, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Bret Taylor: Startups and full-stack engineers have the edge in AI waves
“I think with these big technology waves, I think startups have a bit of a leg up relative to incumbents because they tend to be sort of more Self-actualize in terms of just like bringing those disciplines closer together. And in particular, I think entrepreneu…”
Bret Taylor Feb 11, 2025 ▶ 19:06 The AI Architect: Bret Taylor
Mar 6, 2026 neutral
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Nelle: 10-Person Startups Using Cloud Agents Will Need Enterprise-Scale Dev Pipelines
“As with cloud agents, you scale up this parallelism and how much code you generate, 10 person startups become Need the DevEx and pipelines that a 10,000 person company used to need.”
Jonas Nelle Mar 6, 2026 ▶ 26:49 Cursor's Third Era: Cloud Agents — ft. Sam Whitmore, Jonas Nelle, Cursor
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