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The importance of Plaid and the API market more broadly cannot be overstated—an entire generation of neobanks, lenders, and financial management tools have been made possible through programmatic access to bank transaction data.

Howard Aiken—the inventor of the earliest general purpose computer—was never worried about people stealing his ideas. “If your ideas are any good” he’s quoted as saying, “you'll have to ram them down people's throats.” And yet, we think that the moment that we hit the dance floor, all eyes will be on us. The moment we hit publish, the world will ta... See more

Today’s technology to allow people to search across communities is very basic. Most search inquiries still happen as posts in community forums, which haven’t changed that much since the early days of the internet. I see huge potential for better match-making in the future, for example with the support of AI that can understand suggest potential mat... See more

If you accept this premise that there is no tragedy of the commons – that open source software cannot be over-grazed by having more people use it – that freeloaders are free, and scarcity is not an applicable concept, then you’re forced to look skeptically at other assumptions we’ve been starting to make lately in the broader open source community.

And even with Amazon, Amazon really is a logistics company, I mean the core product for consumers isn't really that great. I don't know of anyone who opens up Amazon and says, "Wow, I love ordering things here, the experience of using Amazon is so much fun." I think the experience that people like is the quick shipping. I mean they built out that l... See more