Lenny's Podcast / episode intelligence
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01 / belief
“I think that's maybe a little bit overplayed a little bit just because maybe here's my argument for that.”
02 / belief
“Let me actually follow that thread because I think people may underestimate just how big of a deal that is.”
03 / belief
“I think if you're in college still, makes sense to get into engineering at this point.”
04 / belief
“I don't want to spend too much time with competitors, but that's what everyone's always thinking about when they think of you guys. You guys are kind of the leading players, I think, in the space also.”
05 / belief
“Are you just going to pull them down?" Because I think one of the things that's true about companies is it's like this massive group project.”
06 / observation
“The kitchen sink of features worked for a lot of companies, but each individual company only wanted 10% of the features. But the problem is, each individual company was not capable of maintaining a piece of software or building the custom piece of software for 10% of the features, but that has now changed entirely.”
07 / belief
“What an incredible conversation. I learned so much just sitting here listening and asking you questions.”
08 / belief
“You just want to give people the flexibility to build where they can build. And I think the IDE and building locally has been a thing that people have done for decades, so probably it's not going to go away in the next couple of years.”
09 / belief
“I think what's interesting about this is another differentiator/moat for companies that end up winning in this space, is you just have more and more of that data than other companies if you're ahead.”
10 / belief
“I think even more acutely for product folks listening to this, it's the salesperson coming to you being like, "Hey, I want this thing.”
11 / belief
“I think the best thing to do is just get your hands dirty with all of these products. And I think one of the most obvious things that's going to happen is, in the next year, there will be a tremendous amount of alpha for anyone that is able to take maximum advantage of these tools.”
12 / belief
“Exactly. So for us, I think that's what we more care about. We have a culture where it's very collaborative.”
13 / belief
“Man, that was such an important point at the end there because I think people may not realize this.”
14 / belief
“We are okay with people using the tools because I think one of the worst things is like, if someone comes here and doesn't like using these tools, we believe there are massive productivity improvements.”
15 / prediction
“So I think look, we are definitely seeing over 30, maybe close to 40% productivity improvements. But I think for the vision that we're solving for, even if I were to say the company in the long tail had 200 engineers, it'd probably be too low still at that point.”
16 / evaluation
“" I think maybe people may not recognize just how risky that is, convincing engineers to use something completely new.”
17 / evaluation
“I think one of the things that's maybe a little bit undervalued is this kind of agency piece. And I think about this a lot, which is, you have a lot of people that could go through college and go through school and they're basically told exactly what to do on a P-set.”
18 / evaluation
“They know when to go all the way down. And I think sometimes you see people that talk about roles and they irrationally feel like, "Oh, because I'm this role, I'm not allowed to touch this.”
19 / recommendation
“Code is one of the most important pieces of IP for the company. So I think just if you were to look at it from a big company perspective, there are many reasons why over the years of just building an enterprise product, we've handled a lot of complexities that large companies want to see.”
20 / prediction
“Just because of distribution, resources and capital, they're going to commoditize every space. So I think in some ways this amount of just understanding that, hey, re-evaluate your hypotheses and get into an uncomfortable space way more frequently is something I need to remind myself even to this day.”
21 / preference
“We try to go with two pizza teams, teams that are fairly small just because I think the problem is when a team gets too big, the person leading the team is no longer able to get in the weeds of the technology itself.”
22 / recommendation
“If there's a very large directory, don't go out and make it refactor the entire directory because then if it's wrong, it's going to basically it destroy 20 files. And I think from there, one of the key pieces I think that comes from the users that use the product is they sort of learn what the hills and valleys of the product are.”
23 / evaluation
“At the time, we were free cash flow positive. But I think what we felt was once these generative models started to get very good, we sort of felt a lot of what we built was not as valuable.”
24 / commitment
“There was a crazy stat that I think people would find surprising, but we've saved over half a million dollars of SaaS products we were going to buy because our go-to-market team has now built apps instead of buying them.”