Noam Lovinsky

And so they they get to flex their their product skills more or they get to flex their data analysis skills more.

And so the most valuable people will continue

to be the people that can wear many hats that, you know, have a more like kind of fulsome skill set that they can express, which was before was just harder to express because of one, where time had to go, but to also the time that your tooling required of you to kind of be able to express those skills.

I mean, I guess like TAM expansion that I see is that the number of problems, the number of things that you're able to solve with software and do for people is just going to expand.

And so, yes, will you be able to have smaller teams, like kind of more productive, doing more?

Will that change kind of like the OPEX accounting fundamentals there?

Like, yes, but I think then like what happens is that you expand through just

providing more service, solving more problems.

And does that lead to like basically fewer, bigger firms?

I don't know, perhaps like maybe there are too many providers and what you actually need is fewer providers that just do more and cover much more, much more of the stack.

It depends how you define platform.

I think there's one definition of platform, which is basically other people can build businesses on top of your product.

I think that maybe that definition is not required for everyone.

I think that your customers are going to build on top of your product is a requirement for everyone that is serious, because customers' needs are always nuanced.

And I think we're very quickly moving to a world where you're just going to have a lot more bespoke software.

And so you have to have a platform approach that and how your customers can build on and extend your platform, your products in order to kind of meet their need.

I think you just think of things pretty differently and the impact of things pretty differently when you know you have other people developing on your platform, right?

Like how you roll out change, how you think about backwards compatibility, how you even kind of run experiments and kind of measure your experiments in terms of who's doing what with your product and kind of what you're making better or what you're breaking.

One of my favorite examples of that, and this is more from

Like YouTube is a platform in the definition that other people can build their business on top of YouTube.