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Watch on YouTube ↗Why We Hire More Engineers Because of AI | Yoseph West of Relay
Watch on YouTube ↗First seen on the TechTO stage in 2021. Every talk is searchable — ask the archive about Yoseph ↗
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I sat across from my co-founder at the time, and I said to him, Cam, like, this is what product market fit looks like. This is what it looks like when people really care.
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What is Yoseph West known for?
Co-founding Relay in 2018 and building it into a business banking platform serving 150,000+ US small businesses with $1.3B in deposits as of May 2026.
What did Yoseph West do before Relay?
He founded Vuru, a stock research platform acquired by Wave, then led product engagement at Wave and marketing at Hubdoc, which Xero bought for $70M.
Why does Relay hire more engineers because of AI?
On the TechTO stage in July 2026 West argued that if AI makes strong people better and you can afford strong people, you hire more of them — not fewer. He said about 90% of the code his team writes is AI-generated.