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session_id: "1373481"
title: "A Company Built Around the Agent"
phase: live
last_checked: 2026-11-12T18:52:58-08:00
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# Links: A Company Built Around the Agent

## Speaker

**Quinn Slack**, Co-founder and CEO, Amp

- Site: [Quinn Slack](https://slack.org/)
- X: [@sqs](https://x.com/sqs)
- GitHub: [sqs](https://github.com/sqs)

## Company

**[Amp](https://ampcode.com/)**: "Coding agent and dev environment built for
the frontier." (from the site)

## Resources

- **Blog** · [Amp Frontier Corporation](https://ampcode.com/news/amp-frontier-corporation)
  (Amp, 2025-12-02, signed by Amp's co-founders). The spin-out from Sourcegraph
  that starts the talk's story.
- **Book** · [Writing A Compiler In Go](https://compilerbook.com/)
  (Thorsten Ball). "He wrote that compiler book": the teammate in the Frankfurt
  airport story.
- **Video** · [Nov 12 Mainstage livestream, from about 7:54:50](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9JtCCZP2MQ&t=28490s)
  (full-day Mainstage livestream, not a per-talk video; the offset is approximate).

## Gaps

- LinkedIn (from the roster) answered 999 with no page title; not published.
- The spin-out post is signed by 20 co-founders; the talk and abstract say 21.
- The $100M+ ARR, the one weekly meeting, the bug-report apology loop and the
  in-house CRM have no public write-up found.
- No per-talk recording or slides yet. The dossier rechecks every 6 hours until
  72 hours after the event, then daily.