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I’ve been lucky to work with some of the best angel investors in the business. When I started Akita, my angel investors were my mentor Jason Hong , superangel Elad Gil , #ANGELS co-founder Jana Messerschmidt , Eventbrite co-founders Kevin and Julia Hartz , Stanford professor Dan Boneh , and NBA player Kevin Durant . I became a more well-prepared and well-connected founder thanks to my angel…
I’ve been without a main platform. I haven’t written on Blogger since 2019; I never got into my Substack ; my Twitter is now private. For the last year, I’d become convinced that self-hosting a blog is the way to go. For a few months, my goal has been to copy Will Larson and use the Hugo framework. But Will had warned me that Hugo is a pain to set up, and so I procrastinated.…
This originally appeared as a post on my LinkedIn . Everybody is talking about how AI will threaten developer jobs. But here’s the thing: there are lots of people with a vested interest in having you believe that. 🤨 My take: all engineers will become AI engineers and there will be more software developers jobs than ever before. 🚀 Lots of people are motivated to have you believe that AI is…
This essay originally appeared on a16z’s Future . Should you move to serverless? Is GraphQL the answer to your API woes? Should you follow the latest DevOps playbook to increase your system reliability? In the world of tech tools, there’s a lot of buzz. But it doesn’t always reflect the daily reality of programmers. As the founder of a developer tools startup, I’ve talked with hundreds, if…
This essay originally appeared on a16z’s Future . There’s been a lot of buzz around APIs, “no code,” and “low code”: Developers can add new features more easily than ever before! While it’s true that this new wave of tools has helped developers build bigger systems, and build them faster, it turns out that developers are now spending their time worrying about an unintended consequence: How…
During our department’s PhD Open House this past spring, a student asked what I thought made a PhD student successful. I realized that my answer now is different than it would have been a few years ago. My friend Seth tells me I need to build more suspense in my writing*, so let me first tell my life story. The whole time I was growing up, I was slightly disappointed that I wasn’t some…