Mlejnsky: DevTool Startups in Existing Categories Do Not Need to Be in SF
Vasek Mlejnsky · Why Every Agent needs Open Source Cloud Sandboxes · Apr 24, 2025 · at 1:01:33
Vasek Mlejnsky (co-founder of E2B) explains why his team relocated from Prague to San Francisco and when geographic location matters most for developer tool startups.
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“I think it's, ah, you can definitely build a DevTool company from Europe. I think it's a lot about question of how easy you want it to be in the earlier days, especially if you're building like a, you know, kind of like red ocean versus blue ocean waters. If you are building in a field that already exists and you have like large competitors, you're building something that's 10 times, hundred times better. It's probably, you probably don't need to be NSF.”
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