Sam Hinkie

What are the market areas?

I know you're going to be a generalist, but what are the market areas that really have your attention where you've done the same version of trying to reach the bottom of one of them that you might with a person?

No-code movement.

I'm a big fan of that.

I think anyone tackling the bottleneck for developers is huge.

I was at the no-code conference in 2019 in person.

There was 200 of us, 400 of us.

Not that much in late 2019 as you're sort of looking at what is happening there.

Obviously, like some of the big players from Notion or Airtable or the like you see.

But then you see someone with real distribution like Microsoft.

employ many of these tools and employ them overnight in a way that should make many of these startups quite nervous.

But that notion of building tools, I'm a big believer in the output of science is a machine.

Once you build that machine, that's where it gets interesting.

What no-code tools largely do is democratize that for far more people over time.

I think by some measure, there's 25 million developers on the planet and a billion spreadsheet users.

And a spreadsheet, while occasionally annoying, is like a wondrous tool.

50 years ago, people wouldn't have believed you could do that.

You could replace literally all of these people with this thing, and it would free up these people to do all these other topics.

That kind of notion, I'm big in.

That's one example of one I've gotten pretty deep in.