What impact do you want to have on the world and why?

My fingers flew across the keyboard as I finished the last line of code. I rushed off to test the endpoint in Postman, had Travis CLI run automatic testing, and navigated the new commit with Sourcegraph.

During the same time, our operations team was manually going through new customers, row by row with pen and paper. Finance was building out similar models over and over again with spreadsheets, and sales was tediously sending decks back and forth in endless email threads.

As engineers, we have an arsenal of rapidly advancing tools that make us disproportionately efficient, while our equally talented coworkers often have to make due with tools and workflows that are heavily outdated.

I want to build a future that eliminates this productivity inequality. Tools to help managers automatically understand the performance of their employees and ways to improve, products that allow finance to reduce the amount of spreadsheet grunt work and focus on new ways to generate cash flows. The ways we can transform work, truly are endless.

This is important because as software continues to devour the world, a company’s success is increasingly defined by its ability to move bricks, not just bits. The large scale flow of rideshare, freight, food delivery, and capital might all seem like the work of slick algorithms, but infact there is immense manpower that keeps these systems running smoothly behind the scenes.

It’s time that we unshackle our operators and give them the superpowers to move ever larger mountains.

— Rishub Nahar