Factory's founders and team drew investors into operating roles

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1. 6:35

   investor side and you're just looking at the opportunity here that made people want to jump ship and leave their jobs and then join factory. What is it? Well, I mean, there's many such cases, Right. And that actually, when I was figuring out what I wanted to do next, that was a very positive signal for me. We've had several investors in factory actually join full time. And that's not typical. That's not exactly. So I was like, OK, there's something going on here.

2. 7:00

   And I mean, I'm three days in, but throughout the whole interview process and even just in these three days, honestly, I think it's twofold. I think the founders, you know, are incredible. They are so, you know, anchored to the mission and they have been since day one. and they're also extremely humble and just extremely supportive of everybody on the team and I think the second thing is the team. Matan talks about this a lot. There's a ton of poly mass at factory is what he says and I think that it is a group of some of the most ambitious people that I've ever worked with. There's very low ego. Everybody just wants to build the best product, the best you know community, the best thing for our customers possible and that's just really inspiring and motivating to be in every single day. What about the market size?

3. 7:48

   obviously factory is doing well i mean we just um raised recently and we announced that and so that's very exciting and attractive as well um but i think for us right like our mission is really just to build the best product for our customers And so everything that we do every day is really kind of tailored towards that. Okay, but a little bit more. I'm sorry to keep pushing on the market size. You don't have to give me any concrete numbers.

4. 8:09

   But one of the big things we're talking, I think, I forget his exact name, but he was on Factory, I think head of product. And we're talking about Factory is a product-first company. You guys are launching specific products. And when you think about products, it's an entity. It has a customer behind it. Why are those products maybe, how is that shaping towards a market size that could be this multi-billion, potentially IPO company down the line?

5. 8:38

   Like, what is this opportunity here? Yeah, I mean, I think Factory's mission, right, is to bring autonomy to software engineering. And we are trying to do that by helping engineering organizations increase the quality and the capacity of their code and of their engineering systems. And so I think as you think about that, we are in certain ways moving towards a world where these products are kind of redefining how major teams and major enterprises operate.

6. 9:04

   And so it's shifting some of the ways in which companies have traditionally operated. And so I think that's a piece of where that kind of comes from. I want to shout out our sponsor, Lovable.