Jesse Meek

Founder and CEO, CodeLingo · 1 appearance on the record.

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Jesse Meek is a New Zealand software developer and entrepreneur who founded Dunedin-based CodeLingo in 2016 to automate code reviews and manage technical debt. Prior to launching the startup, he was a software engineer at Canonical and worked as a researcher at the University of Otago.

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The record, in short

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Assertion Supported

Meek: CodeLingo raised around $700K from Reinventure and RightClick Capital

“All up, we've raised around seven, 700 K. The bulk of that came in 2017. So we raised from two venture capitalists. One was reInventure, which is backed by Westpac. That's one of Australasia's big four banks. And the other one is RightClick Capital, which is p…”

Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 7:42 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue

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 Jesse Meek on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

What they said9 Episodes1

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Insight

Meek: VC funding provides an advantage by enabling irrational market behavior

“Venture capital allows you to do is act irrationally in the marketplace, and that ability is what gives you the competitive advantage. Because we have this capital, we can do experiments and developments not tied to a more traditional bootstrap model.”

Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 15:24 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue

Insight

Meek: Software Knowledge Transfer Breaks Down as Teams Scale

“The core of the problem is that software developers are great at scaling up anything except themselves. So there's a core dynamic of transferring critical knowledge about the software system you're developing that works really well in small teams, but starts t…”

Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 3:05 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue

Assertion Partly supported

Meek: Stripe Estimates Technical Debt Costs Companies $85B Annually

“Stripe came out with a really great report in September last year. It's called the developer coefficient. They estimate technical debt to cost companies eighty-five billion dollars annually, and they estimate a developer to be spending over 17 hours a week out…”

Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 2:37 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue

Assertion Supported

Meek: CodeLingo raised around $700K from Reinventure and RightClick Capital

Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 7:42 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue

Assertion Partly supported

Meek: CodeLingo landed pull requests at Google, Uber, and Sky UK

“In the past month we've had so our bots automatically finds and fixes code. We've had pull requests landed by companies like Google, Uber, Sky UK all in the past few weeks.”

Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 9:16 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue

Assertion Not publicly verifiable

CodeLingo raised $540K pre-seed round at a $3.8M valuation

“The first one was on a convertible note at a 1.8 mil cap. And then the second round wasn't on a note. So the second round was our pre C that was from the VCs. So that was that was just a straight. So the pre valuation was 3.8 mil. So yeah, around four mil valu…”

Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 14:04 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue

Assertion Not checkable as stated

CodeLingo received $2.8M in term sheets while seeking a $300K bridge

“When we went out, we're actually just looking for a bridge. We're only asking for 300 because we wanted to just a bit of extra runway to do the next round. All of, all up, all of the offers we got in we had about 2.8 mil all up in term sheets coming in.”

Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 14:33 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue

Disclosure

Meek: CodeLingo is pre-revenue following pivot to self-service SaaS

“As far as the SAS model goes, we're pre-revenue. We did have revenue with some of the enterprises we're working with, but since the post pivot, we're pre-revenue because we're trying to push a new model to go to a bigger scale.”

Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 4:49 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue

Disclosure

Meek: CodeLingo peaked at around $3,000 MRR from enterprise contracts

“We're talking so we're probably talking best month would be around, yeah, probably probably around three grand a month.”

Jesse Meek Apr 26, 2020 ▶ 6:05 1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue

Appearances (1)

Episode	Date	Speaking time
1737 He Wants Enterprise Customer to Churn to Tackle Massive Technical Debt Issue	Apr 26, 2020	10m

Jesse Meek

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