Python, every mention
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every year anyone Lenny Rachitsky 7Bret Taylor 5Scott Wu 4Peter Deng 4Marc Andreessen 2Jessica Lachs 2Inbal Shani 2Mike Krieger 1Marily Nika 1Maor Shlomo 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Python comes up
Marc Andreessen: The real AI boom hasn’t even started yet
- ▶ 44:20 Marc Andreessen And then I still remember when, when scripting, you know, when scripting languages, you know, we developed JavaScript and Nescape and then, you know, Python took off and Perl and these other scripting languages, but scripting languages,… 2 times in the scene
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- ▶ 38:26 Bret Taylor Some people write C, some people write Rust, but a lot of people write Python and TypeScript and things like that. 5 times in the scene
Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- ▶ 59:47 Maor Shlomo He can write a Python script to analyze things that we do.
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- ▶ 48:28 Andrew Wilkinson So you can, you can literally be like, yeah, build a Python web app that does X, Y, Z.
From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
- ▶ 12:50 Peter Deng You know, he, you know, he goes to Python class, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:21 Peter Deng And when ChatGPT does something really interesting, I tell people it's oftentimes just writing Python code and interpreting it. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
- ▶ 17:32 Mike Krieger Most of the rest of Anthropic is written in Python.
Growth tactics from OpenAI and Stripe’s first marketer | Krithika Shankarraman
- ▶ 8:14 Krithika Shankarraman Like I sat down with ChatGPT and I coded up a Python script.
Inside Devin: The AI engineer that's set to write 50% of its company’s code this year | Scott Wu
- ▶ 20:38 Scott Wu And software engineering is, you know, we think of it today, obviously, as Python and C++ and JavaScript and all these things.
- ▶ 26:34 Scott Wu You know, when you work with Python today, obviously, a lot of things are already abstracted away from you, and in some sense, you know, someone from 50 years ago might already call Python, you know, you just get to explain in English what… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:12:27 Scott Wu And so, so, you know, the, the, the parallel that I would kind of draw is, you know, when we invented Python, obviously like we, we didn't, you know, it's, it's, it's like in many ways, you know, the description of the, and the outlining…
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbooks, more | Kevin Weil
- ▶ 22:56 Kevin Weil So you can talk about a model being amazing at competitive coding, which may not be the same as that model being great at front end coding or back end coding or taking a whole bunch of code that's written in COBOL and turning it into…
Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 3:16 Amjad Masad You need to download the runtime, basically Python or JavaScript.
Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll
- ▶ 5:19 Lenny Rachitsky If you're a data person, you probably have to jump between different tools to run queries, build visualizations, write Python, and send around a lot of screenshots and CSV files. 2 times in the scene
The things engineers are desperate for PMs to understand | Camille Fournier (“The Manager’s Path”)
- ▶ 27:06 Lenny Rachitsky And I'm like, I'm too busy to build, while I'm building to learn these new things and
Building a world-class data org | Jessica Lachs (VP of Analytics and Data Science at DoorDash)
- ▶ 29:45 Jessica Lachs Uh, I completely self-taught, uh, in terms of SQL and Python.
- ▶ 32:33 Jessica Lachs Well, let's learn Python.
The future of AI in software development | Inbal Shani (CPO of GitHub)
- ▶ 27:49 Inbal Shani And then Python came. 2 times in the scene
Marketplace lessons from Uber, Airbnb, Bumble, and more | Ramesh Johari (Stanford professor)
- ▶ 3:29 Lenny Rachitsky If you're a data person, you probably have to jump between different tools to run queries, build visualizations, write Python, and send around a lot of screenshots and CSV files. 2 times in the scene
Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)
- ▶ 3:08 Lenny Rachitsky If you're a data person, you probably have to jump between different tools to run queries, build visualizations, write Python, and send around a lot of screenshots and CSV files. 2 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to Martech | Austin Hay (Reforge, Ramp, Runway)
- ▶ 59:07 Austin Hay They know Python.
AI and product management | Marily Nika (Meta, Google)
- ▶ 27:14 Marily Nika I, I was actually giving talks ages ago at Coding Dojo about Python, and all it takes is just a few weeks of your time and passion and just
Leaving big tech to build the #1 technology newsletter | Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer)
- ▶ 38:04 Gergely Orosz Like, like it's, it's just a very simple Python script that I wrote for myself.
How to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth | Crystal Widjaja, Gojek and Kumu
- ▶ 54:57 Crystal Widjaja I think our, 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.