Lasting Creations, Widely Adopted
Entrepreneurship, in one form or another, has been my bloodstream almost forever. It is a way of life. Fueled by desire to create, and not really by the need to earn money. Really, spawning lasting creations that are meaningful to other people, is my ultimate goal and reward.
Yesterday.
Yesterday I was repairing my mother's car finding the battery was completely dead. I took my son to a local automotive parts shop to buy a new one. The shop has been there as long as I remember, with the helpful owner always at the desk. We paid and he printed the invoice. He is still using the point of sale software I wrote 20 years ago. He has been running his entire business for 20 years using the software I created with my own hands back in 1993. And he is still one of tens of thousands using this software. Just try naming any software (an "app" as we call them...) today that will be meaningful and used on a daily basis in 2033. With all due respect I do not see a candidate. I proudly handed the printed invoice to my son: "see? I wrote the app that prints this. 20 years ago!". He was both surprised and amazed. Lasting creation.
Every day tens of millions of people are getting so called "missed call notification messages" telling them they missed an incoming call while their phone was off line. The calling parties are getting notification messages when the called parties are back on line. These messages have been there "forever". Everybody considers them core features of mobile networks. Nobody thinks how this works, "it is just there". And "has always been". Again behind every such message is the software my former company provided. I can no longer say I wrote it with my very hands, as the aging process forced me out of the programmer's seat into the CEO's seat. But anyway looking at people acting upon the missed calls notifications is my precious reward. Widely adopted, used by everybody on a daily basis, lasting and almost invisible.
Today and tomorrow.
Creating technologies, which find their way into variety of products being used everyday by millions of people has been most exciting for me. With software as the core competency, the Internet of Things makes this possible more than ever before. There has never been a distribution platform with wider reach. Two weeks ago I went to China with one of our strategic partners. They design, manufacture and sell millions of home appliances. Water kettles, ovens, food processors, now even LED light bulbs. I can see each of these products will soon have a microprocessor and a communications chip. Every thing, with no exception. Chips with our software inside, talking to our software in the Cloud and our software on smartphones, tablets, smart watches. Every thing will be smart. Every thing will be connected. IoT is the revolution even us, being at the very core of it, we often find it hard (and revealing) to fully comprehend. Looking forward to the IoT explosion in 2014!
Yesterday.
Yesterday I was repairing my mother's car finding the battery was completely dead. I took my son to a local automotive parts shop to buy a new one. The shop has been there as long as I remember, with the helpful owner always at the desk. We paid and he printed the invoice. He is still using the point of sale software I wrote 20 years ago. He has been running his entire business for 20 years using the software I created with my own hands back in 1993. And he is still one of tens of thousands using this software. Just try naming any software (an "app" as we call them...) today that will be meaningful and used on a daily basis in 2033. With all due respect I do not see a candidate. I proudly handed the printed invoice to my son: "see? I wrote the app that prints this. 20 years ago!". He was both surprised and amazed. Lasting creation.
Every day tens of millions of people are getting so called "missed call notification messages" telling them they missed an incoming call while their phone was off line. The calling parties are getting notification messages when the called parties are back on line. These messages have been there "forever". Everybody considers them core features of mobile networks. Nobody thinks how this works, "it is just there". And "has always been". Again behind every such message is the software my former company provided. I can no longer say I wrote it with my very hands, as the aging process forced me out of the programmer's seat into the CEO's seat. But anyway looking at people acting upon the missed calls notifications is my precious reward. Widely adopted, used by everybody on a daily basis, lasting and almost invisible.
Today and tomorrow.
Creating technologies, which find their way into variety of products being used everyday by millions of people has been most exciting for me. With software as the core competency, the Internet of Things makes this possible more than ever before. There has never been a distribution platform with wider reach. Two weeks ago I went to China with one of our strategic partners. They design, manufacture and sell millions of home appliances. Water kettles, ovens, food processors, now even LED light bulbs. I can see each of these products will soon have a microprocessor and a communications chip. Every thing, with no exception. Chips with our software inside, talking to our software in the Cloud and our software on smartphones, tablets, smart watches. Every thing will be smart. Every thing will be connected. IoT is the revolution even us, being at the very core of it, we often find it hard (and revealing) to fully comprehend. Looking forward to the IoT explosion in 2014!
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