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Aug 2024
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First Time Founders with Ed Elson – The ...

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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.

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