Python
6 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Jul 31, 2022 by Crystal Widjaja · said 37 times in 21 episodes since 2022 · across every show →
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brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (7), Bret Taylor (5), Scott Wu (4), Peter Deng (4), Marc Andreessen (2), Jessica Lachs (2), Inbal Shani (2), Mike Krieger (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 18 mentions in 8 episodes 2 per episode
- He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
- Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
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2024 6 mentions in 4 episodes 2 per episode
- Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll
- Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)
- Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (“The Manager’s Path”)
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2023 9 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)
- Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
- What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)
- Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
- The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway)
- AI and product management | Marily Nika (Meta, Google)
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Everything said about Python, oldest first
Jul 31, 2022 positive
Widjaja: Gojek's first growth SMS experiment increased driver acceptance by 2%
“Our first real growth experiment, we were actually still the data team at this time, was to connect a quick Python script to the Twilio API that we had access to. And we SMSed a bunch of drivers through a CSV that we uploaded that said like, Hey, you're accept…”
Sep 4, 2022 neutral
Sep 4, 2022 positive
Code is better suited for AI models than natural languages
“In fact, They're kind of nice from an AI perspective because they're relatively constrained in terms of their semantics, right? The number of words, and I put that in scare quotes, as it were, that can be expressed in Python, for example, is much smaller than …”
Jun 22, 2025 neutral
Jun 22, 2025 bullish
Deng: Future generations will not need to write code for work
“I don't actually think he's gonna have to code when he grows up. I think that's gonna be a solved problem, but it's a very, very valuable skill because I think learning to program is learning how to think structure in a structured way, right?”
Jul 31, 2025 negative
Taylor: Python is a comically bad programming language for AI to generate
“Python is probably the most common generated code just because how much it's in the training data and data scientists love Python and I love Python too. It's such a comically bad thing for AI to generate just because it's one of the most inefficient programmin…”