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Itamar Novick: Where AI Replaces People, and Where It Does Not - E727
"How are you going to stay ahead of the competition in a world where two kids can vibe code a clone of your product over a weekend?" Itamar Novick is a solo capitalist and the founder of Recursive Ventures, a pre-seed fund focused on AI and emerging tech startups. He has supported over 50 successful startups, including Deel, Honeybook, Placer, Credible (IPO), MileIQ (acquired by Microsoft), Automatic Labs (acquired by SiriusXM), Tile (acquired by Life360), SafeGraph, and Armory. He's been recognized by Business Insider as a Top 100 global seed investor (#17 in 2021, #29 in 2022). As an operator, he helped take...
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So here's the honest, brutal truth. Here's what happened. It turns out I wasn't that good of an engineer. So I was working as an engineer, mostly doing data related engineering and
some data science, but coding. And, you know, some of my managers came to me and said, you know what? You're a good engineer, but I think we'll, you'll be a better team leader. So I was like, okay, great.
I'll turn into a team leader. And I turned into a team leader. And then I was obviously helping up and coming engineers to get better and build the right architecture, do it right. And then my managers came to me again and said, look, you're getting the management side, but like the technical side, you know, you still have a lot of bugs and issues.
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