2022
Exafunction had seven figures in revenue when it pivoted, but Varun Mohan did not see how to scale it substantially.
“we were at seven figures in revenue at the time, but I didn't know how we could effectively scale this a ton.”
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Varun Mohan
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Varun Mohan says that when developers use Codeium, over 45% of their software is generated by it.
“and when developers use Codeium, over 45% of their software is actually generated by Codeium.”
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Varun Mohan says most of GitLab's revenue comes from self-hosted deployments.
“A vast majority of GitLab's revenue is self-hosted revenue.”
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Varun Mohan says a customer dataset of 100,000 to a million lines of code is only about 10 million tokens, tiny next to the trillions used in pre-training.
“training on a S on a on a data set that is like, let's say, 100,000 or a million lines of code is only 10 million tokens.”
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Varun Mohan says some of Codeium's largest customers measure percentage of code written by the tool at roughly 40 to 50%.
“We've worked with some of the largest companies and they're measuring the percentage code written to be somewhere in the forty to fifty range.”
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Varun Mohan says Codeium receives over a million pieces of user feedback each hour, used to judge product quality rather than to train generative models.
“every hour we get mil, we get over a million pieces of feedback from our users on is our product getting better.”
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Varun Mohan says CI/CD pipelines at many companies take thirty minutes to an hour, which slows feedback for coding agents.
“Let's be honest here, right? For a lot of companies, it's like thirty minutes to an hour.”
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