Boring History for Sleep • April 23, 2025
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Merge recently launched Merge MCP helping AI apps understand everything about their customers. Today, Anika sits down with Shensi, co-founder and CEO of Merge, to dive into:
💡 How AI is unlocking more use cases for Merge
🛠️ Why she still codes as a non-technical founder who never worked as a software engineer
📩 How she and her co-founder Gil personally reached out to 10,000+ people to find their first engineering hires
🧠 What the Chief of Staff role actually means in a startup and how it prepared her to be a founder
💬 A raw and honest take on what it’s like to be a woman founder in tech
00:00 Introduction
01:18 Founding Merge
04:24 Founder philosophies around leadership and hiring
14:44 Understanding Merge's product and AI's impact
25:23 Hot seat