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Ellie Schleifer

Co-founder & CEO, Trunk · 1 appearance on the record.

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Eli Schleifer is the co-founder and CEO of Trunk.io. He previously co-founded Directr and held engineering leadership roles at Uber, YouTube, and Microsoft.

11statements → 3claims → 1claims resolved → 4/5average certainty → 1.82/5average debate potential → ≈4.0/5argument clarity, estimated →

1 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 3 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

3 assertions · 1 opinion · 5 insights · 2 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 3 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 1 is resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Ellie argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Schleifer: Google coordinates tens of thousands of engineers in one monorepo
“Having been at Google, it's like, it's amazing. You have tens of thousands of engineers landing code all day long in a monorepo and it works.”
Ellie Schleifer Dec 18, 2021 ▶ 1:39 Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of Ellie Schleifer on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything Ellie Schleifer said on Top Founders that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Opinion
Schleifer: Raising VC is significantly easier than pre-selling an unbuilt product
“I mean, if you're going to say what are the different approaches, it's a lot easier to go raise money from VC than it is to go and pre-sell customers on a product. That's like, you know, a straight up answer on that one.”
Ellie Schleifer Dec 18, 2021 ▶ 6:45 Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now
Insight
Schleifer: Landing code feels like 'death by a thousand paper cuts'
“Once you hit like any amount of scale in your organization landing code gets really hard. It's tedious. I kind of describe it as like death by a thousand paper cuts.”
Ellie Schleifer Dec 18, 2021 ▶ 1:23 Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now
Assertion Supported
Schleifer: Google coordinates tens of thousands of engineers in one monorepo
“Having been at Google, it's like, it's amazing. You have tens of thousands of engineers landing code all day long in a monorepo and it works.”
Ellie Schleifer Dec 18, 2021 ▶ 1:39 Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now
Insight
Companies must treat internal developer tooling as products, not just firefighting
“I think that the right way to do this is like as a company to take on that responsibility to approach this from a product perspective and not just the firefighting, but to be like, okay, if you're going to build this as a product and not just as a tool, not ju…”
Ellie Schleifer Dec 18, 2021 ▶ 2:54 Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now
Insight
Schleifer: Every repository language should be uniformly linted across all machines
“Every single language, every technology in a modern repository should be checked for a static analysis, formatting, linting the same exact way in every single engineer's box.”
Ellie Schleifer Dec 18, 2021 ▶ 4:11 Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now
Insight
Saving a developer two hours monthly easily justifies developer tooling costs
“Engineers are insanely expensive, right? they're only getting more expensive. And if you can return even like two hours of productivity per engineer per month, you've, you know, paid your paid your way easily.”
Ellie Schleifer Dec 18, 2021 ▶ 14:45 Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Uber ATG required 30 developer tools engineers to support 600 engineers
“We had 600 engineers at Uber ATG. We had 30 engineers supporting them as dev tools that experience space and landing code is really hard.”
Ellie Schleifer Dec 18, 2021 ▶ 1:55 Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now
Disclosure
Schleifer: Trunk.io closed a funding round from Andreessen Horowitz in January 2021
“So we raised we raised money from Andreessen Horowitz. We closed that round back in January.”
Ellie Schleifer Dec 18, 2021 ▶ 5:20 Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schleifer: Trunk.io's entire 11-person startup team consists strictly of engineers
“Everyone is an engineer, right?”
Ellie Schleifer Dec 18, 2021 ▶ 10:02 Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now
Disclosure
Schleifer: Trunk.io split equity equally among four co-founders
“We are, we're four founder co-founders that put the thing together. That's, yeah, that's how we did it. We're an equal team of a group”
Ellie Schleifer Dec 18, 2021 ▶ 12:47 Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now
Insight
Schleifer: Engineers must accept that much of what they build gets discarded
“All the all the things you're gonna build, a lot of them are just gonna get thrown away, and that's okay.”
Ellie Schleifer Dec 18, 2021 ▶ 15:58 Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now Dec 18, 2021 9m
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