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How to Build in AI, Lessons From Early Days of Snyk with Founder Guy Podjarny
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Guy Podjarny is the founder of Blaze, Snyk, and now Tessl. He’s spent decades building at the center of developers and security. His newest company Tessl is reimagining software development, helping shape a new paradigm he calls AI Native Development. We talk through his four quadrant framework for building and investing in AI, plus go into the early days of Blaze and Snyk. He shares lessons on marketing to developers, hiring when no one wanted to work for him, overcoming multiple difficult funding rounds, and lessons from multiple M&A processes. Timestamps: (00:00) Intro (02:21) The four quadrants of building and investing in AI (14:59) Why AI startups are riskier than non-AI startups…