When I started my company, I wanted to begin with open source foundations, focusing on real-time web applications and making things fast.

If I hadn't made the effort to bridge the gap to where people were at the time and deliver incrementally, we wouldn't have the principles we have today at the company.

The only tech choices that matter are those tied to your customer promises; for example, we had to maintain our API level while rewriting much of our code as we scaled.

Simplicity was key in our product development. We focused on providing easy access to construction information on mobile devices.

I believe in being comfortable with criticism; our customers clearly wanted e-commerce, and I had the conviction to push for it despite challenges.

I want to make it easy for developers to build and ship to the web, similar to how Stripe simplified financial infrastructure for developers.

Our goal is to offload heavy lifting into the core to facilitate cross-platform development, which we've successfully achieved.

In our early hires, we didn't prioritize candidates with web infrastructure backgrounds, which led to unique solutions to technical challenges.

The magic happened when we aligned the needs of those wanting simplified deployment with those wanting simplified React and web application building. I struggled in the beginning to deliver the vision incrementally and meet the market where it was, which at the time was very static.