React
4 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Mar 2, 2025 by Matt Mullenweg · said 26 times in 11 episodes since 2024 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Guillermo Rauch (9), Varun Mohan (4), Lenny Rachitsky (4), Maor Shlomo (2), Lazar Yovanovich (2), Amjad Masad (2), Claire Vo (1), Bret Taylor (1)
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2026 2 mentions in 1 episode
2025 18 mentions in 5 episodes 4 per episode
- Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
- Building a magical AI code editor used by over 1m developers in 4 months: Inside Windsurf
- Solo founder, $80M exit, 6 months: The Base44 bootstrapped startup success story | Maor Shlomo
- How 80,000 companies build with AI: Products as organisms and the death of org charts | Asha Sharma
- He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
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2024 6 mentions in 5 episodes 1 per episode
- Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- Product Management Is Dead, So What Are We Doing Instead? | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
- The paths to power: How to grow your influence and advance your career | Jeffrey Pfeffer (Stanford)
- Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YT, IG, FB)
- A framework for PM skill development | Vikrama Dhiman (Gojek)
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Everything said about React, oldest first
Mar 2, 2025 positive
Mullenweg: WordPress community forced Meta to reverse restrictive React licensing
“I think it was React that they were doing something with the licensing or like a patent restriction on. And the WordPress community actually got Meta to change that and reverse something they were doing to lock it down.”
Mar 6, 2025 negative
Zhao: Notion rebuilt its codebase because Google Web Components proved too unstable
“Before react wins, there's a competing technology called web component from Google. And it makes sense. Web component feels like a Lego like the building block like, and we're betting on that technology. And then we realized, because it's so new, it's just so …”
Apr 13, 2025 bullish
Rauch: JavaScript and React are the universal lingua franca for web AI
“JavaScript is almost, in my mind has always been almost like the English of programming languages. It's a language that if you learn it, you reach billions of devices. So it's not a coincidence that when you ask ChatGPT or Anthropic or Gemini to build you a we…”
Apr 13, 2025 bullish
Rauch: Minimum 100 million people aspire to build digital products
“For us, and the opportunity was if there is maybe five million React developers, which is the sort of the library engine that we use, and there's maybe twenty million JavaScript developers, how many product builders or people with aspirations of building produ…”