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The Data Pipeline is the New Secret Sauce

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.

“The biggest challenge emerging is building and operating the infrastructure both for creating and running the data pipelines to build, manage, and maintain a robust, secure body of proprietary data.”

AI Investor Jesse Robbins on NYSE Floor Talk

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.

“I am focused on investing in pre-seed and seed companies using AI to enable new ways of writing software, of managing and deploying the software and infrastructure that powers everything.”

Jesse Robbins Named One of the 30 Most Successful Early-Stage Startup Investors

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

Heavybit Welcomes New Member: Continue

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

“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

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.

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

DevOps is dead? Nope, it is maturing ft. Jesse Robbins

DevOps is not dead. It's maturing. Platform engineering is the next layer of the same idea, not a replacement for it. My conversation with Rob Zuber on what's actually changing and what isn't.

“Organizations evolve like cities. You start with a few shacks in the woods. Eventually you have enough at stake that you need building codes, fire codes, a fire department, and someone who actually tests the sprinklers.”

The Seed 100: The Best Early-Stage Investors of 2021

Business Insider named me to the 2021 Seed 100, a list of early-stage investors built with Tribe Capital.

“Robbins is the right investor to call in an emergency.”

A Developer's View Into Blockchain Network Architecture

I joined a Blockdaemon panel at Heavybit with Brian Behlendorf, Jed McCaleb, and Jake Craige to look at blockchain infrastructure through a developer-tools lens.