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title: Open Source
description: Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins, tagged Open Source.
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# Open Source

Interviews, articles, podcasts, and talks featuring Jesse Robbins, tagged Open Source.

## [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.

## [Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Continue](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/heavybit-welcomes-new-member-continue.md)

*2023-11-14*

Heavybit's announcement when Continue joined the portfolio, an open-source tool that brings LLM assistance directly into the IDE.

## [Cloud Native StartupFest 2023](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/cloud-native-startupfest-2023-kubecon-jesse-robbins.md)

*2023-11-06*

I co-hosted Cloud Native StartupFest at KubeCon NA 2023 with Erica Brescia and Dave Zilberman: fundraising in the post-2022 capital environment, open source business models, and what investors actually look for.

## [Ex-Amazon 'Master of Disaster' Animates Server Chef](https://jesserobbins.com/mentions/ex-amazon-master-of-disaster-animates-server-chef-register.md)

*2010-01-26*

The Register profiled my move from Amazon's Master of Disaster role to co-founding Opscode and launching Chef, tracing the line from reliability engineering to infrastructure as code.

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