Jake Cooper

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1,106 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 20 May

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Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast · Railway: The Agent-Native Cloud — Jake Cooper · 20 May 2026 podcast

And, like, I think there's a thing that's really, really tough to, like, teach people or tell people about is, like,

When you build an open product on the internet where anybody can sign up, the internet is a horrible place that has so many things.

Oh yeah, I told you about my PCN.

Yeah, and then crypto miners, you got all these other things, right?

And so you kind of go through these periods of like, well, how do I reach as many people as possible?

And then how do I...

fit in exactly the use case for the people who are really, really going to matter and are going to be really, really excited about specifically this thing, right?

And we go back and forth internally.

And then there's like a, what is that, a two-year period of like making the actual business work in general, right?

So like free tier era, losing, what, I think half a million dollars a month.

And like, you know, we're making... On like a 20 million bank account.

Yeah, yeah, and like a $20 million bank account with like, I don't know, like maybe $50,000 a month in revenue or something else like that is horrible business.

I don't know why anybody would invest it.

But anyways, you have to kind of go through and be like, cool, like we have an experience that people love in general, but like the business has to work, right?

And I think there's like, I guess, two schools of thought.

You can continually run the horrible business all the way up in general and have bad margins, or you can actually go back and kind of make it work, right?

And for us, you know,

we've always really wanted to have like a super lean team, right?

So we're 35 people right now.

You know, it's very, very small.

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