Kevin Weil

And it was like you were saying, there was this, you know, there were a bunch of people who were like, hey, now that, you know, you've just like put that university of whatever professor, you know,

he did all this work and now you just shipped it.

Come on.

And Stephen's point was that you would never want to live in a world where today you still had to go to like some professor's website and download a TCP IP stack and compile it yourself to get it going.

You just want to use the internet.

And basically the expectations of a platform, the consumer expectations of a platform are an increasing function of time.

And if the platform can provide more of the technology that, you know, if you see something where,

In order to build the actual thing that people want to build, you've got 10 different companies having to go build the exact same piece of like foundational infrastructure.

You should probably just provide that.

And then those 10 companies can go do like more interesting stuff.

And I've always remembered that story.

It's really stuck with me because I think the fact that people are just going to expect more and more out of these platforms is very real.

But the upside is all for third parties in this, for developers in this world, because if the platform provides more of the building blocks,

then they can spend less time re-implementing the wheel on these building blocks and more time doing the thing that they actually uniquely add value in.

And AI is going to change absolutely everything in our life.

Any industry, any vertical, any geography that you can imagine, AI is going to touch.

And so there's so much...

opportunity for developers to reinvent and reimagine.

I think anything that we can do on the platform side to help accelerate that by making the more of the building blocks easy, we should be doing.

I mean, almost everywhere.