Boris Jabes (@borisjabes) co-founded Census, which raised $80M from Sequoia and a16z, and exited to Fivetran.
Before that, he co-founded Meldium, raised only $1M, and sold it to LogMeIn.
He is now a @ycombinator visiting partner.
Boris is a legendary entrepreneur, an engineer's engineer, and a mensch.
On episode three of Cars and Capitalists, Boris and I discuss:
02:43 - Optimism as a superpower
04:02 - Traits in winning YC founders
06:48 - Vibe coding isn't fun
12:22 - Stefan Zweig's Chess as allegory for AI psychosis
19:52 - Is AGI BS?
24:31 - Open-sourced models
28:44 - The secret to Boris' co-founder relationships