Blitzy's Brian Elliott: Cursor And Claude Code Are Looking At Your Enterprise Code ‘Through A Straw’

The Upstarts Podcast · Jul 2, 2026 · 41m

First at West Point and then as an officer in the U.S. Army Rangers, Brian Elliott always sought out the hardest, highest-impact challenge.

“You can do hard things that don’t have impact, but you can’t do things that have impact that aren’t hard,” he says.

Now Elliott is taking the same approach at Blitzy, the Boston-based startup he co-founded with Harvard Business School classmate Sid Pardeshi in 2023 to overhaul and lead massive code projects for large corporations. Blitzy’s agents can understand 100 million-plus lines of code, automating away work that customers would otherwise pay…