105: Quinn Slack, Co-Founder & CEO of Sourcegraph

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We’ve all heard of “big data”, but the lesser-known is “big code.” This is an emerging challenge and opportunity for companies today - a challenge because the amount and complexity of code is growing; opportunity because its value is also growing.

Most tools and practices for code management were not built for an era of Big Code - the implication is codebases that are especially large (which is the case in most at scale organizations) are brittle; any individual change may shatter the whole thing.

That’s where Sourcegraph comes in - Sourcegraph has raised over $200M to solve this very challenge. They’ve built software that empowers engineers to navigate the codebase and make changes that don’t have unintended downstream implications

In today’s conversation, I chatted with Sourcegraph CEO Quinn Slack on how he’s thinking through the era of Big Code and how Soucegraph is enabling organizations to operate in a more resilient manner.