"Open Source"

Why Market Size Trumps Everything in VC Deals

Jesse Robbins breaks down what investors look for, why market potential is a critical filter, how co-founder dynamics predict failure, and what separates founders with real grit from those optimizing for pitch theater.

What Investors Look For in AI Startups: Builders with Taste

Jesse Robbins explains what he looks for in developer tool startups, why AI is still in the toil-automation phase, and why agentic experiences are just good developer experience by another name.

The Future of Dev Tools Is Autonomous: Engineers Will Become Fleet Generals

Shift Magazine surveys the rise of autonomous AI agents in developer workflows, quoting Jesse Robbins on designing software for agents, the open-source community reigniting joy in coding, and why collaboration with tools matters more than raw productivity.

Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Continue

Heavybit announces Continue, an open-source tool that brings LLM assistance directly into the IDE. Jesse Robbins on why the best AI developer tools meet engineers where they already work.

“I'm excited to welcome our newest portfolio company, Continue, which gives software engineers the power to streamline their development process using large language models (LLMs) and hit flow state faster and longer.”

Cloud Native StartupFest 2023

Jesse Robbins co-hosted Cloud Native StartupFest at KubeCon NA 2023 with Erica Brescia and Dave Zilberman. Tactical advice on fundraising, open source business models, and what investors actually look for.

“Open source is not a business model. Open source is a movement. We're still figuring out the business models.”

Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Animates Server Chef

The Register profiles Jesse Robbins as Amazon's former 'Master of Disaster' and covers his co-founding of Opscode and the launch of Chef, tracing the line from his reliability engineering work at Amazon to the infrastructure-as-code movement.