"welcome to the a 16z podcast I'm Michael Copeland a software becomes core to every industry there is a commensurate need for more and more software development across practically every department in a..."

"all those questions with the panel that includes Roger Dickie founder and CEO of gigster slack CMO Bill Masai tiss github director of field services Matthew McCullough and Joel Spolsky co-founder and ..."

"creation of software in a really fascinating way but first on just on the the supply side I thought we would just sort of begin by like asking what you know what what's so diff now in terms of how peo..."

"the organization so you know historically the CIO has been viewed as as like the Guardian and and from the most part the creator of the software at least the selector of the software and an organizati..."

"well you said something super interesting I kind of want to push on a little bit because I want to I want to get a sense for how folks think of it I don't I don't know if all the see eyes want to be s..."

"in-house IT development and so you know one of the one of the the company Sharpe sign here at github sort of houses most of the open-source software in the world and it's a crazy thing to think about ..."

"use of the concept of inter source we're starting to be able to split those apart and speak more articulately to all three the consumption of open source is the one where if anyone here in the room sa..."

"about how quickly you can release product to market and less focus on trying to keep your code close to the vest and inside many cases I can take code from many of the companies represented here and i..."

"community because we don't accept their change where does the community fit in with open-source that as a business you want to rely on i'm archiving a thread even just from this morning that includes ..."

"setups so so super so speaking of past employment and and engineers like one of the things i just i mean i'm old enough now to remember like learning my first system involved you know fifteen feet of ..."

"exact thing that you need at any given time to make a step forward so where does where so it literally like so people show up and they just start programming and and yet why is that so much better lik..."

"huge team of people you know yours to figure out in the past so we're we're like what what replaces if you're a CIO and you're you are building an internal system open source or not what what replaces..."

"get a grasp as to whether this seems like is my person that super so oh so maybe maybe talk about what is it on github that how is your resume on github now so a lot of your work when we think about t..."

"software yes certainly so so my background is software development and it's it's worth noting that the founding insight behind gigster was we asked ourselves you know all the founders are software eng..."

"you can use the uber analogy which I think works very well for us so imagine the driver side of the YouTuber experience but put a wall between the front and back seat of the car right that's that's th..."

"actually funding all these little startups that never work through degree so that's you know that that's the supply side and that that's you know like I said that was the founding insight and the thes..."

"you're chatting with us it we call them sales engineers they go through they ask you a few questions and they basically their job is to fill in the gaps so they're asking you you know okay what are yo..."

"which of the software here do you use to get the job done absolutely everything so we have we have like 300 projects on github we have an internal github so we can reuse code from certain projects to ..."

"what's neat about side projects is you know I I sort of remember growing up like hearing about 3m and being able to innovate on Fridays and do whatever you want and then Google picked up on that and i..."

"open-source comes out of that but I think that our goal with Stack Overflow is to give you a very very small unit of contribution answering a question is one thing but an even smaller unit of contribu..."

"fit in like let me throw an example at you that's like so I you know the employee says I copied the source code example from Stack Overflow and it a bug in it and now that bug is all over our code and..."

"treat the unit's that you're dealing with is either atomic agents which is all right fine people are bringing in iPhones I don't actually know what code is running on those iPhones up to almost biolog..."

"new level like one of the things that's so fascinating about slack is this massive community of people building extensions and and integrations so that there's not another SAS product they're all saps..."

"and I think you know in the CI role that essentially you're trying to create value and you know you want to leverage the ecosystem of both your internal team your external team but do it in a safe and..."

"million out of you know only nine million people that call themselves developers still not in the billions but a pretty large number and if you look at the contributions on a github project people don..."