a16z Podcast: What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need
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🗓️ 6 January 2016
⏱️ 43 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The content here is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal business, tax, |
| 0:05.6 | or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security and is not directed |
| 0:10.3 | at any investors or potential investors in any A16Z fund. For more details, please see A16Z.com |
| 0:16.8 | slash disclosures. Welcome to the A16Z podcast. I'm Michael Copeland. |
| 0:22.4 | The old constraint when it came to technology was hardware. |
| 0:26.4 | How many CPUs can I get my hands on? |
| 0:29.0 | Today, spitting up compute can be done from any smartphone with an AWS account or something |
| 0:34.7 | similar. |
| 0:35.7 | The current constraint is software. And since software is written and |
| 0:40.0 | operated by people, tackling that constraint comes down to making people as informed, enabled, and |
| 0:46.5 | efficient as possible. Three CEOs and co-founders of three companies that serve software developers, |
| 0:53.2 | Chris Wanstrith from GitHub, Jeff Lawson from Twilio, |
| 0:56.2 | and Ben Yuretsky of DigitalOcean, |
| 0:58.3 | take part in a conversation with A16Z's Peter Levine |
| 1:01.6 | about the needs of software developers. |
| 1:04.4 | What are the emerging platforms, ecosystems, and tools |
| 1:07.4 | that help developers succeed |
| 1:09.0 | at what is increasingly the most important job in any company, |
| 1:13.4 | writing and running software. Peter Levine begins the conversation. |
| 1:18.6 | We wanted to hold this panel on the sort of future of software development, |
| 1:26.1 | and one of the interesting sort of rationales behind the panel was I, I often look back, |
| 1:34.3 | and software development has software development prior to, let's say, five years ago, |
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