The AI Company That Codes For You | First Time Founders with Ed Elson

Today in First Time Founders, Ed speaks with Varun Mohan and Jeff Wang from Codeium, an AI code generator. They discuss the importance of being a lean company, how their product stacks up against competitors and why having a level of paranoia has been imperative to their success.

Timestamps:
00:00 - Ask Prof G: Have you made a big pivot in any of your companies and how did you know it was time to do it?
02:30 - Welcome to First Time Founders
03:57 - Is Codeium replacing programmers?
06:06 - How competitive is the code generation space?
07:19 - What does Codeium look like for a programmer?
09:14 - What is the history behind Codeium?
13:43 - How was your company's pivot successful?
16:20 - What made you change the entire company?
17:36 - Is it true that Codeium was built from scratch?
18:32 - Has any other start-up built their apps from scratch?
20:50 - How is your AI model being trained?
23:39 - How will the free-tier of Codeium be sustained?
25:41 - How will you invest the $65M raised?
26:49 - How does Codeium approach expenditure?
28:50 - What would you advice other companies in terms of expenditures?
32:05 - What does it feel to be the hottest company in the hottest industry?
35:00 - How much transparency is too much?
38:14 - What has been the greatest challenge Codeium
has faced these past 2 years?
39:00 - What is your advice to anyone working in the AI industry?

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