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Assertion Open · timeframe Apr 2027
Rachitsky: Data labeling firms pay heavily for pre-AI GitHub repos
“Data labeling companies are buying old GitHub repos of handwritten code. To train their models on. And they're paying a lot of money for like artisanal human written code.”
Lenny Rachitsky Apr 2, 2026 ▶ 39:13 An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point & dark factories are coming
Assertion Open · timeframe Dec 2024
Shopify founders deleted incomplete code after one hour of pair programming
“You know, Toby famously built a lot of Shopify pair programming, and what he would do is he would actually set a timer And him and his, the CTO, Cody, would pair program for one hour, and if they did not finish the problem in one hour, they would delete all th…”
Farhan Thawar Dec 19, 2024 ▶ 23:20 How Shopify builds a high-intensity culture | Farhan Thawar (VP and Head of Eng)
Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Oct 2023
Rachitsky: Notion team retrospectively concluded they should have hired PMs earlier
“In my Notion deep dive on how Notion builds product, one of the interview answers was just like, we should have hired product managers earlier.”
Lenny Rachitsky Oct 5, 2023 ▶ 1:15:16 Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life
Assertion Open · timeframe Mar 2023
Aluwi: Gojek paid early drivers via physical cash booths with vaults
“In the early days, we actually had cash booths. So we actually had physical spaces with like a vault and a cash sitting in the vault where drivers can show up, you know, show that, oh, I'm, this is my driver ID. And this is the balance that I have with you, pl…”
Kevin Aluwi Mar 26, 2023 ▶ 28:10 Taxi mafias, cash vaults & 100% MoM growth: The story of SEA’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek)
Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Mar 2026
Wodtke: Google publishes all employee OKRs and weekly updates on intranet
“Google, even as a huge company, everybody's OKRs and their weekly updates are on their intranet and you can look stuff up.”
Christina Wodtke Mar 16, 2023 ▶ 52:19 The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
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