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SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Trunk.io Helps you Code Like Google, $3.2m Raised, Official Launch Now

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders

Nathan Latka

Ceo, Entrepreneurs, Founders, Software, Business, Entrepreneurship, Saas, Startups

4.6683 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Land. Code. Faster.

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Yeah, so we raised money from Andreessen Horowitz.

0:04.3

We closed that round back in January.

0:06.6

Okay, how much did you raise?

0:08.4

We raised 3.25, I believe.

0:14.2

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0:17.5

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gitlatka.com. Hey folks, my guest today is Ellie Schleifer. He is today working on a company

0:52.2

called trunk.io, which helps you land code faster in a

0:55.9

previous life. He was an autonomy staff software engineer at Uber. And before that was a staff

1:01.5

technical lead manager at YouTube. Al you ready to take us to this up? Let's do it. All right,

1:06.3

man. So what is trunk? And who's buying this? Who are you selling to? So Trunk is a DevTools company.

1:11.9

We're basically creating a vertical to the left of GitHub.

1:15.1

Our goal is to help the engineers land code faster.

1:18.6

Kind of like the core idea is that being an engineer is not particularly fun.

1:22.7

Once you hit like any amount of scale in your organization, landing code gets really hard.

1:27.6

It's kind of tedious.

1:28.8

I kind of describe it as like death by 1,000 paper cuts.

1:31.5

You know, every time you're trying to actually do something, you know, you run to some

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