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title: Developer Tools
description: Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins, tagged Developer Tools.
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# Developer Tools

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins, tagged Developer Tools.

## [The Seed 100: The Best Early-Stage Investors of 2026](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/seed-100-businessinsider-2026.md)

*2026-05-18*

## [What I look for when I invest](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/what-vcs-look-for-ai-investment-founder-tips-market-size.md)

*2026-01-28*

On airCFO's Funded podcast I walked through how I evaluate companies at Heavybit, why market size is the first filter I apply, and how I read co-founder dynamics before I read the pitch.

## [What Investors Look For in AI Startups: Builders with Taste](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/what-investors-look-for-ai-startups-shift.md)

*2025-06-12*

At Shift Conference Miami 2025 I walked through what makes a developer-tools startup investable, why AI is still in the toil-automation phase, and where things are headed.

## [The Future of Dev Tools Is Autonomous: Engineers Will Become Fleet Generals](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/future-devtools-autonomous-fleet-generals-shiftmag.md)

*2025-05-22*

Shift Magazine surveys autonomous AI agents in developer workflows and quotes me from the Shift Miami panel on designing software for agents as much as humans.

## [Next in Tech Ep. 197: Data Pipelines for AI](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/data-pipelines-for-ai-next-in-tech-podcast.md)

*2024-12-10*

On S&P's Next in Tech I argued that enterprise AI is won on data pipeline quality, not model size, and that data infrastructure is having a DevOps moment right now.

## [The Data Pipeline is the New Secret Sauce](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/the-data-pipeline-is-the-new-secret-sauce.md)

*2024-09-16*

I wrote this at Heavybit in September 2024. The argument: the data pipeline is the differentiating asset in enterprise AI. Includes four inference hosting models and four enterprise maturity phases.

## [AI Investor Jesse Robbins on NYSE Floor Talk](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/jesse-robbins-nyse-floor-talk.md)

*2024-08-05*

On NYSE Floor Talk, August 2024: a short statement of what I invest in now, AI-powered developer tools and infrastructure at the pre-seed and seed stage.

## [Jesse Robbins Named One of the 30 Most Successful Early-Stage Startup Investors](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/jesse-robbins-named-top-30-early-seed-stage-vc-investor-business-insider.md)

*2024-01-17*

Business Insider named me to its 2024 list of 30 most successful early-stage investors.

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