Jake Cooper is the Founder of Railway.

We talk about solving the hardest problems in dev tools, how AI accelerates the need for strong backend infrastructure, when to build vs buy in AI software, and why there are only two moats: solving hard problems and doing hard things.

We also get into Railway’s bold product bets, like building their own data centers, enabling creators to earn revenue selling Railway backend templates, and not building their own AI models.

Jake also unpacks what makes Railway unique, like their four week onboarding, building a problem roadmap, why operators should be managers, and why you shouldn’t work on weekends.

Thank you to Angelo Saraceno @ Railway and Erica Brescia Bacon @ Redpoint for help brainstorming topics for the conversation.

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