What Quinn Slack thinks about startups
Co-founder and chief executive of Amp, the AI coding-agent company spun out of Sourcegraph in December 2025, and Sourcegraph's CEO until then; writes about code search, AI coding agents and how large codebases get understood.
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1 dated position, 2013, in their own words. Our reading of what Quinn Slack has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsBut if you calibrate your idea so that 90% of people like it, it’s probably insufficiently ambitious—and you are overvaluing feedback and neglecting faith. You should be aiming for an idea that a lot of people reject for the same reason, and you should have faith in your ability to overcome that specific issue better than anybody else.