Inside Greptile: Future of AI Coding, How Companies Actually Use AI | Daksh Gupta

Описание: Daksh Gupta is the Co-founder and CEO of Greptile, the AI code reviewer that understands your entire code base.

Greptile just closed a $25M Series A led by Eric Vishria at Benchmark, and we get into their long and winding journey to build one of the fastest growing AI companies.

Thanks to Suds at SF1 for helping brainstorm topics for the conversation.

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Timestamps:
3:15 Evolution of AI coding + code review
11:23 Coding will never be fully automated
18:07 Why you need a separate code reviewer
24:34 How eng teams adopting AI is changing
27:37 Why LLM costs will come down
31:54 Pricing AI products
35:27 Getting your team to adopt AI
38:17 How Daksh started the 996 discourse
42:10 Recruiting is a funnel, open roles are a product
49:19 Making an energy drink for programmers
51:19 Brainstorming marketing stunts
57:22 Don’t do hype marketing too early
59:41 Starting a band, hitting #14 on Spotify
1:06:35 Evolution of the startup meta
1:12:39 Starting Greptile in class at Georgia Tech
1:19:18 Moving to SF, getting into YC
1:23:44 Pivoting from codebase chat to code review
1:27:09 Crazy growth and mimetic desire
1:29:47 Pricing AI software
1:34:44 How to market developer tools
1:39:46 Greptile's fundraising journey
1:42:57 Why YC is worth the 7% dilution
1:46:39 Treat fundraising like dating

Referenced
Greptile: https://www.greptile.com/
Careers at Greptile: https://www.greptile.com/careers
Monetizing Innovation: https://www.amazon.com/Monetizing-Inn...
Greptile Work Culture: https://www.greptile.com/blog/work-cu...
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