Corey Knowles

And so it's kind of shocking sort of how much software is internal facing.

And if you think about it that way, then it's actually makes a lot of sense why that's the majority of software.

But if you try to imagine like vibe coding, like Procter and Gamble vibe coding software, very rarely are they starting a new application.

Yeah.

They don't have any new apps.

They're really building apps on top of existing data.

And so that's where I think a platform like Retool really comes into play that allows you to generate applications on top of your data and host it in your cloud, which is I think security is really important for these larger companies.

What I think is pretty remarkable is I think that democratization of software creation has kind of been something that we've been talking about for 10, 15, 20 years at this point.

I remember 10 years ago, there were platforms that were trying to do this.

But to be honest, I think they never really took off because in the end, writing software was just a pretty big sort of hurdle to jump across, if that makes sense, you know.

going from not knowing how to code to building a production application, even if you take a Coursera course, it's still pretty hard.

Yeah.

But I think what's really going to happen in the workforce over the next five years, maybe 10 years, is the people that are able to pick up this sort of AI native skillset will really do especially well.

And actually we have one example, we have many in our customer base, but one,

A person that I think about is her name is Charlotte.

She works at Coursera, actually.

And she's been promoted, I think, four times, I think, in five years, if I recall, because she's been able to say, hey, here are all the problems that I see as someone more on the business side.

And instead of waiting for an engineer to go solve this, instead of me writing the ticket and then, you know, hoping that engineer will solve it one day, I'm just going to go build it myself, actually, on a platform like Rateful.

Totally.

You have much more context because you live the problem day to day.