A decade later, I’m starting up again.
I sold my first company ten years ago and have spent the years since working as an engineer. Now I’m building @workersio as a solo-founder.
We’re living in a new era where an agent can write software faster than a team of 100 engineers. As software becomes more autonomous, I want us to raise our expectations and take more responsibility for what we build along the way.
Software can have a long half-life, and over time it becomes critical in ways we never planned for. Businesses, and sometimes lives, end up depending on decisions (or our agents) we make.
For the longest time, building reliable & verifiably correct software systems required resources that only a few teams could afford. I want to make those capabilities widely accessible, especially as more teams take on ambitious problems and build more of their own software in-house.
Our ambition is to make five nines of availability and verifiably correct the default for software in the agent era, so the software running our world becomes more dependable as it becomes more capable.
I’m excited to share that we’ve raised from @ycombinator, @solofounders, and an incredible group of angels - @Joshuabrowder, @tylerwillis, @ericbluewatch, @gshewakr, @jaentwistle and some friends and customers.
This is the mission I’m committing to for my next moonshot; I’m grateful to everyone helping me bring it to life.
If this mission excites you, I’d love to hear from you. Whether you want to work with us, help us along the way, or exchange ideas about where software is headed, please reach out.
Systems Distributed tops the list of conferences I attended this year.
The venue, artwork, speaker intros, and swag. Everything so tastefully put together. There is no way one can pretend their way to it.
Super inspiring to see Joran and the team bring together all the folks whose work made TigerBeetle possible, excellent format, and I hope more people do it!
It was so nice to visit Boston after 8 years, it is the first US city I lived in and almost forgot how incredible it is.