Summer Replay - What GitHub Can Give to Microsoft with Jason Warner
In this Summer Replay, we revisit our conversation with Jason Warner, where he explained to us how to “Git” on it. Since this episode’s original airdate, Jason has since went on to become the CEO and co-founder at poolside, but his time at GitHub has given him the expertise to inform folks about all the exciting things GitHub has going on. Listen as Jason offers insight into GitHub’s successes which have led to their acquisition by Microsoft. He breaks down his own history at GitHub and its vision to become the “worlds most important software company.” Jason dives into some of the details of GitHub acquisition and the possibilities for what they want to achieve, and where they expect to go within Microsoft. Jason and Corey discuss how to talk about the cloud for its current, and importantly, future clients. Jason talks about what GitHub will bring to Microsoft, and perhaps how it’ll be for the better. Tune in, because the getting is about to “git” good.
Show Highlights:
(0:00) Intro
(0:27) Duckbill Group sponsor read
(1:01) The role of GitHub
(4:46) How GitHub and Azure can coexist
(7:08) When to adopt to the cloud
(9:55) GitHub’s impact on Microsoft
(13:24) Experiencing acquisition
(19:34) Misconceptions of GitHub
(21:36) Duckbill Group sponsor read
(22:20) Practicality of Codespaces
(25:34) Designing software with a purpose
(28:40) Dispelling nerd culture in software
(30:55) Starting in a non-technical direction
(33:52) Where you can find more about Jason
About Jason Warner:
Jason Warner is the co-founder and CEO of poolside. He serves on the operating board of Bridgewater Associates. He has previously worked at GitHub as their CTO.
Links:
GitHub: https://github.com/
@jasoncwarner: https://twitter.com/jasoncwarner
GitHub: https://github.com/jasoncwarner
Jasoncwarner/ama: https://github.com/jasoncwarner/ama
Original Episode:
https://www.lastweekinaws.com/podcast/screaming-in-the-cloud/what-github-can-give-to-microsoft-with-jason-warner/
Sponsor:
The Duckbill Group: https://www.duckbillgroup.com/
754: A Code-Specialized LLM Will Realize AGI, with Jason Warner
Explore the future of coding with poolside co-founder and CEO Jason Warner as he explores the potential of code-specialized LLMs and their revolutionary impact on the developer's role. Tune in for insights on the shift towards an AI-led development paradigm.
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When AI and Blockchain Meet, How Can Each Technology Benefit? - Ep 516
In recent months, ChatGPT, Bard and other new artificial intelligence (AI) products have revolutionized numerous industries. But how this nascent technology can work with crypto and blockchain technology is still relatively unexplored. In this episode, Illia Polosukhin and Jason Warner delve into the transformative potential of AI and crypto coming together.
They explore a wide array of applications, from AIs managing Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs), to DAOs being used to help open source AIs, to blockchain technology making the inner workings of AIs more transparent.
Tune in to this episode for a deep dive into the fusion of AI and crypto.
Show highlights:
Illia's and Jason’s backgrounds, including how Illia’s work in artificial intelligence (AI) got him into crypto
what AI actually encompasses and how to define it
why Jason says that "it works right now, it's machine learning and if you're raising money, it's AI"
how blockchains can facilitate the provision of resources for training data
the problem of attribution in training AI models
how OpenAI and Midjourney hold a lot of power at the moment, according to Illia
why open source code helps build better AI systems
how LLMs are being used to audit code in the blockchain ecosystem
up to what point AI can be used for crypto trading
why misinformation is a human problem, not an “AI problem,” and how blockchain technology can help solve this issue
how blockchains can be used to verify facts to combat misinformation
whether AI can help mitigate attacks on DeFi protocols
how DAOS and AI can work together and whether AI can coordinate a company
what’s missing in terms of infrastructure for DAOs to thrive with AI
how to structure regulation with this rapidly evolving technology
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Guests:
Illia Polosukhin, cofounder of NEAR.
Previous appearance on The Chopping Block: The Chopping Block: Why AI Will Change the Course of History in Crypto
Jason Warner, founder at Poolside.
Links
Op-ed by Illia: Blockchain can save the media - Blockworks
CoinDesk:
AI Can Generate a Trading Edge in Crypto Markets
10 Ways Crypto and AI Can Make Each Other Better (or Maybe Worse)
Blockchain May Offer Answers for AI Challenges
Former FTX.US President Brett Harrison's New Venture Is Seeking to Harness AI for Crypto Trading
Blockchain Developer Platform Alchemy Releases AI-Powered Tools for Web3 Builders
When AI and Blockchain Merge, Expect the Mundane at First
Imagining the Future AI and Web3 Can Build
World Economic Forum: Blockchain can help combat the threat of deepfakes. Here's how
Cointelegraph: DAOs: Where humans may fail, AI could succeed
Forbes: Convergence Of Web3, AI And Metaverse: Navigating The Great Reset For Investors,
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EP 52: Jason Warner & Jacob Effron (Redpoint Ventures) - Former GitHub CTO Explains AI for Dummies
In the 52nd episode of the Logan Bartlett Show, Redpoint’s Jason Warner and Jacob Effron join to discuss the quickly expanding AI landscape, what the AI models are, and why we should be paying attention.
(0:00) Welcome Jason Warner and Jacob Effron
(8:30) Why does the AI boom feel like it’s come out of nowhere?
(12:30) How does it actually work?
(16:02) Compounding on itself through usage & training reward models
(18:08) Two most mainstream AI models
(22:20) Why do people care about open source vs closed source?
(30:45) Companies at the foundational level
(36:05) What’s exciting from a use case standpoint?
(44:28) Changes occurring in the workforce
(48:15) Who should be in charge of AI policy
(54:12) Comparisons to crypto
(58:54) Future-proofing yourself as a founder outside the AI landscape
Show Notes:
Unsupervised Learning Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Zn7A4TPHRScBPZ2pA6sZ1?si=avH3lLS8R4iBuocgUAiYxQ
Unsupervised Learning Substack: https://unsupervisedlearning.substack.com/
OpenAI Cookbook: https://github.com/openai/openai-cookbook#readme
Langchain Overview: https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Attention is All You Need Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.5555/3295222.3295349
Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt book: https://www.amazon.com/Age-I-Our-Human-Future/dp/0316273805
Mixed and edited: Justin Hrabovsky
Produced: Andrew Nadeau and Rashad Assir
Executive Producer: Josh Machiz
Music: Griff Lawson
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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, Netflix. In each episode, Logan goes behind the scenes with world-class entrepreneurs and investors. If you're interested in the real inside baseball of tech, entrepreneurship, and start-up investing, tune in every Friday for new episodes.
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Logan Bartlett is a Software Investor at Redpoint Ventures - a Silicon Valley-based VC with $6B AUM and investments in Snowflake, DraftKings, Twilio, and Netflix. In each episode of The Logan Bartlett Show, we sit down with the people behind today’s most important startups and extract the tactics, lessons, and frameworks they’ve learned the hard way. Conversations span hiring to GTM, product, growth, fundraising and everything in between - collectively forming the ultimate playbook to make you a better CEO, investor or board member.
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How a very average programmer became GitHub's CTO
Jason is now a managing director at Redpoint Ventures and has led one investment so far, backing a company called Alchemy that is focused on infrastructure and dev tools for web3.
He describes himself as a "very average" programmer, but an excellent engineer, and explains how he parlayed his unique skill set into key roles at Heroku and GitHub.
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What GitHub Can Give to Microsoft with Jason Warner
About Jason
Jason is now the Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures.
Links:
GitHub: https://github.com/
@jasoncwarner: https://twitter.com/jasoncwarner
GitHub: https://github.com/jasoncwarner
Jasoncwarner/ama: https://github.com/jasoncwarner/ama
Leading GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition (Interview)
Jason Warner (CTO at GitHub) joined the show to talk with us about the backstory of how he helped to lead GitHub to a $7.5 billion acquisition by Microsoft. Specifically how they trusted their gut not just the data, and how they understood the value they were bringing to market. We also talk about Jason’s focus on “horizon 3” for GitHub, and his thoughts on remote work and how they’re leading GitHub engineering today.
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Featuring:
Jason Warner – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
GitHub’s CTO on architecting engineering teams that scale
Current stats – 40M+ developers with 100M+ repos
Go back in time to hear our reactions to Microsoft buying GitHub - “The news is true. Microsoft is acquiring GitHub.”
The Changelog #331: GitHub Actions is the next big thing with Kyle Daigle
Jason’s book recommendations:
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
Team of Teams by Gen. Stanley McChrystal
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
High Output Management by Andrew Grove
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Moving to Remote Development (and Work)
From agile project management to asynchronous collaboration, development teams have pioneered many of the tools and best practices for remote work. However, new shelter-in-place orders have more organizations moving to remote development -- and remote work -- often quickly and without a lot of time to plan.
Will remote work be our new reality, even after the current pandemic? And if so, what are the current technologIes and practices that support organizational communication and alignment for distributed teams, development and otherwise? In this hallway-style podcast, Jason Warner, the CTO of GitHub, and a16z General Partner David Ulevitch cover how working from home is evolving our software as well as how we use it -- from communication tools and best practices to interviewing and hiring when you can’t see someone face to face.
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