Varun Mohan and Jeff Wang from Codeium share their journey in leading an AI code generation company. They discuss the essence of maintaining a lean operation for success. The duo emphasizes the transformative role of AI tools in enhancing developer productivity and the competitive landscape they navigate. They reveal the strategic choice to offer a free tier to users, enabling rapid growth while balancing monetization. Insights on psychological safety and startup culture highlight their approach to thriving amid challenges in the AI sector.

The world increasingly runs on code. Accelerating the work of those who create that code will boost their productivity — and that’s just what AI startup Codeium, a member of NVIDIA’s Inception program for startups, aims to do. On the latest episode of NVIDIA’s AI Podcast, host Noah Kravitz interviewed Codeium founder and CEO Varun Mohan and Jeff Wang, the company’s head of business, about the company's business, about how AI is transforming software. Codeium's AI-powered code acceleration toolkit boasts three core features: autocomplete, chat and search. Autocomplete intelligently suggests code segments, saving developers time by minimizing the need for writing boilerplate or unit tests. At the same time the chat function empowers developers to rework or even create code with natural language queries, enhancing their coding efficiency while providing searchable context on the entire code base. Noah spoke with Mohan and Wang about the future of software development with AI, and the continued, essential role of humans in the process.

As with many aspects of the digital currency world, DeFi is still in its early stages of development. But it has the potential to transform financial services the same way that the internet has transformed communication services. Today’s guest says the difficult thing is finding out if there’s real value.Jeff Wang, VP of Product at tomocrypto.com and contributor to the Rich Dad Crypto Newsletter says, “The big difference this time, is there is a connection to the real world. Actually using the crypto you have.” Things that are happening in the real world are getting represented in crypto.Additionally, Robert and Jeff discuss:Crypto's bear market (correlation to stock market)Biden Executive order/central bank digital currencyCrypto’s role during the Russia/Ukrainian war and how it accelerated regulatory actionsHost Robert Kiyosaki and guest Jeff Wang discuss the future of crypto and how to differentiate between valuable crypto and just hype.