Replit

“Early twenty-twenty-four, when I felt like when I did, when we kind of went into founder mode, laid off, you know, half the team leaned up the executive team and the management structure and brought us back to kind of like a small team with a very intense focu…”

“By the way, when we released CodeGen, it was me and, like, an intern working on it.”

“We're like, we're the only company that that's done that, which is like the full stack experience from the code to the databases, to the cloud deployment.”

“There's a, there's this benchmark called SWE bench. So software engineering bench. And that's what everyone's competing on. We don't really compete on that. And the reason is because we are building for a different audience.”

“We published the seed deck at somewhere on the internet, and you can see there was like this master plan, and AI was part of it.”

“Well, now it's more. Six or seven X.”

“By the way, editing files with models is actually quite a tough problem. Turns out they don't know how to generate diffs. They don't work with line numbers very, very easily. So you have, you need a quite a complicated system for edits to work.”

“When GPT-III came out, I think we were one of the first companies to build anything on top of it. The first thing we built was like, you highlight a piece of code and you explain it.”

“Our vision, again, it's like, I think we're going to be able to get to, at some point, like a billion users.”

“We trained this three billion parameter model. It was the first three billion parameter model that was state of the art in coding and open source coding. It did better than all the other open source models. It actually did better than Palm on coding.”

“And I looked at the landscape of online IDEs and there was like, there was a ton of, Attempts at it. The problem is no one had built like a sort of a web native experience. And the way I define web native experience is that it should be able to load really qui…”

“Actually, if you go to our YC profile, now they publish the videos, click on the video, it is still a Rickroll.”

“So we built the first sort of co-pilot alternative, essentially.”

“Our view and the way we track our metrics now is that when you go into the editor and code, it's almost like the Tesla disengage.”

“AI coding is very clearly in the pragmatists. You know, get up co-pilot now, I don't know, three years old cursor's flying off your shelves, wind service flying off the shelf, you know, replit, all these guys are kind of being, you know, used everywhere. So yo…”

“And then Replit, which went from 10 to a hundred million dollars of ARR in just the last six months.”