Best Refactored Podcasts (2025)

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Thinking in Bets for Engineers 🎲— with Annie Duke 1:11:55

5d ago1:11:55

1:11:55

Today's guest is Annie Duke, who is a former world-class professional poker player and one of the world's top experts on decision-making.She's a bestseller author and coach of many tech founders and teams.With Annie we talked about her journey from studying decision science to becoming a top poker player and back to decision-making. We explored how…

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The smell of vibe coding (News) 7:33

1d ago7:33

7:33

Alex Kondov knows when you’ve been vibe coding. (He can smell it.) our friends at Charm release a Go-based AI coding agent as a TUI, Jan Kammerath disassembled the “hacked’ Tea service’s Android app, Alex Ellman made a website that provides up-to-date pricing info for major LLM APIs, and Steph Ango suggests remote teams have “ramblings” channels. V…

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Episode 472: Should my junior dev use AI and thrown in to ETL 26:59

1d ago26:59

26:59

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I’m the CTO of a small startup. We’re 3 devs including me and one of them is a junior developer. My current policy is to discourage the use of AI tools for the junior dev to make sure they build actual skills and don’t just prompt their way through tasks. However I’m more and more questionin…

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SO much to dig into (Friends) 1:23:48

3d ago1:23:48

1:23:48

Adam & Jerod (plus zero other randos) dig into Stack Overflow’s 2025 developer survey results. We discuss SO’s decline, the desire for younger devs to have real chats with real people, the rise of uv and more Python winning, why people are frustrated with AI, and more. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 minutes on this episode because t…

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Solving the AI energy crisis (Interview) 2:02:37

4d ago2:02:37

2:02:37

Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Akash Network joins us to share the backstory in his testimony before congress on the energy crisis and what it’s going to take to power the future of AI. From powering datacenters, to solar, decentralized AI compute, to zombies in SF. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 2 minutes at the end of this ep…

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SE Radio 679: Wesley Beary on API Design 47:51

6d ago47:51

47:51

Wesley Beary of Anchor speaks with host Sam Taggart about designing APIs with a particular emphasis on user experience. Wesley discusses what it means to be an “API connoisseur”— paying attention to what makes the APIs we consume enjoyable or frustrating and then taking those lessons and using them when we design our own APIs. Wesley and Sam also e…

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It's time for modern CSS to kill the SPA (News) 7:48

8d ago7:48

7:48

Jono Alderson takes aim at SPAs thanks to modern CSS, copyparty turns almost any device into a file server, Ernie Smith honors the Game Genie’s 35th anniversary, Anthropic shares how their teams use Claude Code, and Drew Lyton tells why he believes the future is NOT self-hosted. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ members support ou…

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Episode 471: Why does my junior engineer do so little and I fell asleep in a Zoom meeting 28:34

7d ago28:34

28:34

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I’m a senior developer on a small team, and I’m feeling frustrated with a junior developer I work with. They’re smart and perfectly capable, but they stick very strictly to the confines of their assigned work. They’ll finish their tickets, but unless they’re directly asked, they don’t offer …

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ZOE Health App: AI, and the Fight Against Ultra-Processed Food 43:22

10d ago43:22

43:22

What if the food we eat every day is silently undermining our health, and AI holds the key to reversing it? In this episode of AI at Work, I sit down with Jonathan Wolf, co-founder and CEO of Zoe, to explore the intersection of AI, microbiome science, and the future of personalized nutrition. If Zoe sounds familiar, it’s likely because of their gro…

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#define: props to astronomer (Friends) 1:06:10

12d ago1:06:10

1:06:10

Welcome back to #define, our game of obscure jargon, fake definitions, and expert tomfoolery. This time we’re joined by three Changelog++ members, to see who has the best vocabulary and who can trick everyone else into thinking that they do. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 14 minutes at the end of this episode and zero ads. Join…

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Bringing Vitess to Postgres (Interview) 1:15:14

13d ago1:15:14

1:15:14

Sugu Sougoumarane, creator of Vitess, comes off sabbatical to bring Vitess to Postgres. We discuss what motivated Sugu to come off sabbatical, why now is the time, the technical challenges of doing so, the implementation details of Multigres (Vitess for Postgres). We also discuss the state of Postgres at scale. Join the discussion Changelog++ membe…

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SE Radio 678: Chris Love on Kubernetes Security 54:36

12d ago54:36

54:36

Chris Love, co-author of the book Core Kubernetes, joins host Robert Blumen for a conversation about kubernetes security. Chris identifies the node layer, secrets management, the network layer, contains, and pods as the most critical areas to be addressed. The conversation explores a range of topics, including when to accept defaults and when to ov…

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🎙️ Sprint Planning, Complexity, and Marketing 40:58

13d ago40:58

40:58

Links and more: https://www.valadria.com/sprint-planning-complexity-and-marketing/ 🎬 Time Codes 0:00 Intro 0:23 Work schedules / time tracking / sprint planning 4:28 Game architecture complexity 8:50 Splitting time on indie game development / other stuff 14:09 Marketing / promotion 21:08 A challenge for you 23:40 Ramble on 34:06 Promoting games on …

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Humanity has prevailed (for now!) (News) 6:47

15d ago6:47

6:47

Przemysław Dębiak beat an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a 10-hour head-to-head coding marathon, Linux breaks 5% desktop share in U.S., Stefano Marinelli is writing a series on making your own backup system, César Soto Valero switched to Python (and is liking it), and Charlie Graham thinks it’s rude to show AI output to people. View the newslette…

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Episode 470: I said something stupid in a meeting and just want to code 30:12

14d ago30:12

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In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I was on a meeting with a team generally regarded to be pretty annoying to deal with and not particularly useful. The meeting was pretty annoying and not particularly useful. I audibly said to myself after leaving “holy crap what a waste of time.” Turns out I hadn’t left and may not have bee…

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Try harder. Ultrathink! (Friends) 1:31:46

18d ago1:31:46

1:31:46

Nick Nisi joins us to discuss all the Windsurf drama, his new agentic lifestyle, whether or not he’s actually more productive, the new paper that says he maybe isn’t more productive, the reckoning he sees coming, and why we might be the last generation of code monkeys. Join the discussion Changelog++ members get a bonus 13 minutes at the end of thi…

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Pivoting to Retool (Interview) 1:21:57

19d ago1:21:57

1:21:57

David Hsu from Retool joins Adam to discuss how he built Retool. From the pivot in YC, to building the most widely used internal tools platform, to now being the platform for AI agents in the enterprise—on this episode we cover David journey from YC to building agents for the enterprise. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 5 minutes on thi…

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Work Without the Overload: Atlassian’s Vision for Seamless Collaboration and AI Agents 27:14

20d ago27:14

27:14

What if your tools could finally talk to each other and reduce meetings, manual tasks, and copy-paste chaos in the process? In this episode of AI at Work, I sit down with Sanchan Saxena, Head of Product for Work Management at Atlassian, to unpack the thinking behind their new Teamwork Collection. Recorded live at Team 25 in Anaheim, this conversati…

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SE Radio 677: Jacob Visovatti and Conner Goodrum on Testing ML Models for Enterprise Products 1:00:54

20d ago1:00:54

1:00:54

Jacob Visovatti and Conner Goodrum of Deepgram speak with host Kanchan Shringi about testing ML models for enterprise use and why it's critical for product reliability and quality. They discuss the challenges of testing machine learning models in enterprise environments, especially in foundational AI contexts. The conversation particularly highligh…

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An app can be a home-cooked meal (News) 8:45

22d ago8:45

8:45

Researchers in Japan achieve a world record in data transmission speeds, Robin Sloan explains how an app can be a home-cooked meal, Windsurf founders Varun Mohan & Douglas Chen are headed to Google, new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan says it’s too late for the incumbent, Anton Zaides says stop forcing AI tools on your engineers, and Adrien Friggeri visualize…

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Episode 469: Passed over for lead role and perhaps I'm the jerk 35:53

21d ago35:53

35:53

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I’m a long time listener to the podcast. Thanks for reading and answering my question! I have over 20+ yrs experience as a manual QA and 6+ yrs experience as a SDET. I’m in a new role as a hybrid manual QA / SDET for a company that hasn’t had QA for a few years. After a couple of months a ne…

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Measuring the actual impact of AI coding (Friends) 1:03:39

25d ago1:03:39

1:03:39

Abi Noda from DX is back to share some cold, hard data on just how productive AI coding tools are actually making developers. Teaser: the productivity increase isn’t as high as we expected. We also discuss Jevons paradox, AI agents as extensions of humans, which tools are winning in the enterprise, how development budgets are changing, and more. Jo…

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Refactoring at Scale Done Right 🏗️ — with Maude Lemaire 1:05:14

26d ago1:05:14

1:05:14

Today's guest is Maude Lemaire, who is a principal engineer at GitHub and author of the book, "Refactoring at Scale."With Maude, we talked about her journey in tech, from Rent the Runway to joining Slack and leading its performance engineering team to joining GitHub as a principal engineer. And then we discussed what it means to do refactoring at s…

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SE Radio 676: Samuel Colvin on the Pydantic Ecosystem 1:02:06

25d ago1:02:06

1:02:06

Samuel Colvin, the CEO and founder of Pydantic, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about the ecosystem of Pydantic’s Python frameworks, including Pydantic, Pydantic AI, and Pydantic Logfire. Along with discussing the design, implementation, and use of these frameworks, they dive into the refactoring of Pydantic and the follow-on performance imp…

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Lightspeed search built for devs (Interview) 1:38:30

27d ago1:38:30

1:38:30

We talk with Don MacKinnon, Co-founder and CTO of Searchcraft—a lightspeed search engine built in Rust. We dig into the future of search, how it blends vector embeddings with classic ranking, and what it takes to build developer-friendly, production-grade search from the ground up. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this epis…

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Serial entrepreneur Pieter Levels on building in public and living as a digital nomad 22:37

28d ago22:37

22:37

Pieter Levels joins John Collison to discuss building successful online businesses as a digital nomad, thoughts on European accelerationism, and Pieter’s unconventional methods and philosophy as a bootstrapped founder making over $3 million per year. Timestamps 00:00 Intro 00:37 Pieter’s resume 01:33 Trying to make money online as a 12 year old 02:…

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How Thoughtworks Sees AI Maturing Beyond Hype in 2025 38:46

28d ago38:46

38:46

In this episode of AI at Work, I sit down with Mike Mason, Chief AI Officer at Thoughtworks, to explore what happens when the generative AI hype starts to settle and businesses begin asking the real questions. What’s working, what’s not, and what does mature adoption actually look like in 2025? Mike brings a practical, deeply informed view of the A…

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Full-breadth developers for the win (News) 8:54

29d ago8:54

8:54

Justin Searls describes the “full-breadth developer” and why they’ll win because AI, Cloudflare comes up with a way publishers can charge crawlers for access, Hugo Bowne-Anderson explains why building AI agents fails so often, the Job Worth Calculator tells you if your job is worth the grind, and Sam Lambert announces PlanetScale for Postgres. View…

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Episode 468: Should I take a mini-retirement and doubling down on anachronisms 31:12

30d ago31:12

31:12

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: Hi Dave and Jamison, Long-time listener, first-time question asker. Thank you both for the wisdom, perspective, and jokes you bring to the podcast. I recently received an inheritance of around $500,000. It’s not “quit your job and buy a yacht” money, but it is enough to reshape my life. I’m …

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Data Replication Ain't Easy: Interview With Josh Hicks of Jumpmind 52:34

1M ago52:34

52:34

Josh Hicks of Jumpmind knows a thing or two about just how complicated data replication can get. On the surface, it's a simple problem. Data in one spot needs to get to another spot. Add a new location in? No problem. ... But it gets complicated FAST, and that's a problem they solve at Jumpmind. Big thanks to Josh for sharing his career journey, fe…

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Selling mountain bikes all over the planet (Friends) 2:08:08

1M ago2:08:08

2:08:08

Jeff Cayley joins Adam to talk about selling mountain bikes all over the planet and making some of the best outdoor and mountain bike gear, parts, and accessories you can buy. They have a killer YouTube channel as well. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 62 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors:…

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BrontoSource and Swiss Tables 51:46

1M ago51:46

51:46

Matt Kulukundis joins Timur and Phil. Matt talks to us about BrontoSource, his start-up focused on refactoring, updating or migrating large codebases, as well as his work on Swiss Tables. News Herb Sutter's WG21, Bulgaria, trip report End of active development on jemalloc "Amortized O(1) complexity" - Andreas Weiss' lightning talk Reddit discussion…

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Agent, take the wheel (Interview) 1:53:58

1M ago1:53:58

1:53:58

Thorsten Ball returned to Sourcegraph to work on Amp because he believes being able to talk to an alien intelligence that edits your code changes everything. On this episode, Thorsten joins us to discuss exactly how coding agents work, recent advancements in AI tooling, Amp’s uniqueness in a sea of competitors, the divide between believers and skep…

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SE Radio 675: Brian Demers on Observability into the Toolchain 47:41

1M ago47:41

47:41

Brian Demers, Developer Advocate at Gradle, speaks with host Giovanni Asproni about the importance of having observability in the toolchain. Such information about build times, compiler warnings, test executions, and any other system used to build the production code can help to reduce defects, increase productivity, and improve the developer exper…

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Coding agents have crossed a chasm (News) 6:25

1M ago6:25

6:25

David Singleton says coding agents have crossed a chasm, Anton Zaides explains how SWEs should approach the “squeeze”, Mat Duggan has ideas for Kubernetes 2.0, Sean Goedecke does a nice job elucidating the coding agent commoditization, and one more good reason to write, even though it’s hard. View the newsletter Join the discussion Changelog++ memb…

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Episode 467: I can't get promoted if I do my job and should I get a degree to get a job in this economy 40:52

1M ago40:52

40:52

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I am a data scientist and was recently passed over for promotion to senior because my projects weren’t “senior level” enough, and I do too many ad hoc requests that delay delivery of my bigger projects. I am a go to for VP and C suite level execs in my company and am commonly asked to help w…

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Let's build something phoenix.new (Friends) 1:35:31

1M ago1:35:31

1:35:31

Our old friend Chris McCord, creator of Elixir’s Phoenix framework, tells us all about his new remote AI runtime for building Phoenix apps. Along the way, we vibe code one of my silly app ideas, calculate all the money we’re going to spend on these tools, and get existential about what it all means. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 4 mi…

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When vibe coding goes viral (Interview) 1:11:06

1M ago1:11:06

1:11:06

Chris Anderson joins the show. You may recognize Chris from the early days of CouchDB and Couchbase. Back when the world was just waking up to NoSQL, Chris was at the center of it all, shaping how developers think about data distribution and offline-first architecture. These days, Chris is working on Vibes.diy and Fireproof — tools that make one-sh…

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Building AI-Powered Podcast Learning 🎧 — with Kevin Smith 50:42

1M ago50:42

50:42

Today's guest is Kevin Smith, who is co-founder of Snipd, one of the world's most popular podcast apps.With Kevin, we talked about his journey in tech, starting from quantitative finance and then running an AI team in a high-growth startup up to actually founding one with Snipd. Then we segued into talking about Snipd itself and what are the techni…

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How Orange Business Sees AI and Automation Rebuilding Manufacturing 24:39

1M ago24:39

24:39

In this episode of AI at Work, I’m joined by Simon Ranyard, Managing Director for Northwest Europe at Orange Business, to challenge old assumptions about manufacturing and reveal how technology is rewriting the rules. We discuss how AI, automation, augmented reality and 5G are giving manufacturers the tools to boost productivity, reduce downtime an…

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The Bot Company founder and CEO Kyle Vogt on home robots and why he’ll never sell another company 22:31

1M ago22:31

22:31

The Bot Company founder and CEO Kyle Vogt—who also cofounded Twitch and Cruise—joins John Collison to talk about applying AI to home robots, the similarities between robotics and self-driving, and why the next $100 billion company will have fewer than 100 people. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (00:38) The Bot Company pitch (02:05) Single-task vs. multi-t…

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SE Radio 674: Vilhelm von Ehrenheim on Autonomous Testing 49:49

1M ago49:49

49:49

Vilhelm von Ehrenheim, co-founder and chief AI officer of QA.tech, speaks with SE Radio's Brijesh Ammanath about autonomous testing. The discussion starts by covering the fundamentals, and how testing has evolved from manual to automated to now autonomous. Vilhelm then deep dives into the details of autonomous testing and the role of agents in auto…

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Episode 466: Bad performance review and moving in to the caves 29:56

1M ago29:56

29:56

In this episode, Dave and Jamison answer these questions: I had my performance review two months ago where I scored a “Does not meet expectations”, which I definitely understand, and my manager told me that some of my coworkers had been complaining about me. I’ve been working hard on improving ever since and my manager told me that they were really…

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AI That Works: How Freshworks Turns Hype into Real ROI 30:14

2M ago30:14

30:14

In this episode of AI at Work, I sit down with Dennis Woodside, CEO of Freshworks, to uncover how real companies are getting true value from AI. Dennis shares how Freshworks has built AI tools that help businesses resolve routine questions automatically, boost agent productivity, and give managers clear performance insights without needing complex …

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Just on the rocks (Friends) 1:29:41

2M ago1:29:41

1:29:41

Jerod tells Adam about how bad he hates the taste of Gin, sips on some Generative A Rye (on the rocks), they open the comments section for a bit, and then land the plane talking about being alone, naked, and afraid. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 6 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Reto…

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The CEO of htmx likes codin' dirty (Interview) 1:23:09

2M ago1:23:09

1:23:09

Jerod is joined by Carson Gross, the creator of htmx –a small, zero-dependency JavaScript library that he says, “completes HTML as a hypertext”. Carson built it because he’s big on hypermedia, he even wrote a book called Hypermedia Systems. Carson has a lot of strong opinions weakly held that we dive into in this conversation. Join the discussion C…

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SE Radio 673: Abhinav Kimothi on Retrieval-Augmented Generation 55:55

2M ago55:55

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In this episode of Software Engineering Radio, Abhinav Kimothi sits down with host Priyanka Raghavan to explore retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), drawing insights from Abhinav's book, A Simple Guide to Retrieval-Augmented Generation. The conversation begins with an introduction to key concepts, including large language models (LLMs), context wi…

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OpenAI cofounder Greg Brockman on the scaling hypothesis and refactoring as a killer AI use case 31:51

2M ago31:51

31:51

Greg Brockman—OpenAI cofounder and Stripe's first engineer—joins John Collison to talk about research-driven product development, an early moment he thought OpenAI was doomed, S curves in AI advancement, and energy bottlenecks. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (02:51) Was OpenAI the first company to take the scaling hypothesis seriously? (04:53) Lessons fr…

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Meta CFO Susan Li on headcount vs. GPU allocation, “free cash flow” hats, and almost becoming a PM 29:43

2M ago29:43

29:43

Susan Li of Meta—the youngest chief financial officer of a Fortune 100 company—joins John Collison to talk about capital allocation, managing investors, and how Mark Zuckerberg has changed over the 17 years of working together. Timestamps (00:00) Intro (01:20) Early education and career (02:15) Lessons from Michael Grimes at Morgan Stanley (03:12) …

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Cheeky Pint hosted by Stripe cofounder John Collison 0:56

2M ago0:56

0:56

John sits down with founders and builders over a pint—Greg Brockman (cofounder of OpenAI), Susan Li (chief financial officer at Meta), Kyle Vogt (founder of The Bot Company and cofounder of Twitch and Cruise), and Pieter Levels (indie hacker). Watch Cheeky Pint on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@stripe.…

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