Kevin Weil

And the whole world was busy and they couldn't do it.

They couldn't create a website.

They didn't have the skills to do it.

And as a result, they were managing things less efficiently, doing a bunch of manual work at a time when everybody was slammed.

And he was just saying, can you imagine if I had these tools, we would have been able to create a website overnight.

It would have just worked.

And, you know, they would have been able to do their work more effectively.

And you have that times a million as you look around the world.

And so, I mean, that is actually the other thing about coding that I think is super interesting.

That's maybe like the, you know, ninth reason why coding is a good, it's such a general purpose technology.

If you can create code, then you can create all kinds of things.

And so there's something really powerful to the idea that a billion people might be able to write code.

So Stephen Sanofsky told me an interesting story about this one time.

Stephen used to run Windows at Microsoft and Office and everything.

And he was telling me this story about the transition from Windows 93 to Windows or whatever it was called back then to Windows 95, Windows 3.1 maybe.

where it was just like the beginning of the internet.

And so most people weren't using the internet.

And if you were going to actually get on the internet with Windows 3.1, you had to go to some University of Oregon professor's website and download a TCP IP stack, compile it yourself, and install some device drivers, and then you could actually go on the internet.

And then in Windows 95, of course, the internet was happening and they were like, okay, we need to ship this stuff with Windows.

And so they did.