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S11 E16: The Vanity Metric Deception: Why Counting Lines of Code Fails the Cursor Era and How to Calculate True "Weave Hours" with Adam Cohen, Co-Founder & CEO of Weave
Sep 9, 2025 · Season 11 · Episode 16 · 17 min
Helping you understand the productivity of engineering
Adam Cohen grew up in Toronto, in North York. He showed early signs of entrepreneurship by putting his lemonade stand on a wagon, and taking it door to door - or hustling his friends to buy souvenirs on a school field trip. His Dad was in VC, and was a big influence on his life, pushing him to succeed. Outside of professional life, he is big into sports, specifically basketball. In the past, he loved playing fantasy sports, which also influence how he built his business ventures.
Adam and his team went through several iterations of AI tooling - summarizing AI, integrating git and JIRA, etc. While they were doing this, they realized that the best way to make a difference, was to first focus on the data itself.
This is the creation story of Weave.
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