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Ding: Building Integrations In-House Is as Pointless as Self-Hosting Servers
“There have been some situations where we've talked to companies where they're like, no, like our founder believes in like we build this in house and we can be uniquely good at it. And obviously I'm biased, but that is just fundamentally not true. There's no on…”
Shensi Ding Sep 18, 2025 ▶ 35:55 She cold messaged 50,000 engineers—then grew to $10M+ ARR. | Shensi Ding, Founder of Merge · PMF Show
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Goel: Hyperscalers Build for DevOps Engineers Due to Enterprise Revenue Incentives
“And for AWS and GCP and Azure, all the money Is in massive enterprise contracts with companies that have massive DevOps teams. So guess who they're building for? They're building for DevOps engineers.”
Anurag Goel Jun 29, 2026 ▶ 23:55 He quit Stripe and hit $10M ARR in 4 years—with $0 marketing spend. | Anurag Goel, Founder of Render · PMF Show
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Liberty: Pinecone Saturated Entire Cloud Regions Post-ChatGPT Demand
“We got to the point where we would saturate whole, like, regions in, in, in AWS and GCP. We just couldn't meet the demand.”
Edo Liberty Mar 17, 2025 ▶ 43:31 He got rejected by 40 VCs & had 6 months of runway—2 years later, he raised $100M from a16z. | Ed... · PMF Show
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Lorenc: Google Cloud was 66% of Google's headcount when he left
“And so when I left, I looked back and it was like, Google Cloud is like, 66% of Google by headcount.”
Dan Lorenc Oct 11, 2024 ▶ 2:29 He quit Google with no startup idea, raised $50M from Sequoia with no revenue— & grew to 8 figure... · PMF Show
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