We decided not to do business "as usual." Thirty years ago.

"I am lucky that I was born into a family of early technology adopters. My father started programming classes at Western Airlines two days after I was born, so I’m a second generation programmer. In the mid-1970’s, my father bought a computer kit and built the first computer we had at home.

I didn’t know much about how to use this computer, but I was intrigued by it, especially the fact that you could type in a command to play a sound from one music pitch to another. I learned how to make the computer play a police car siren, and that was a whole lot of fun for an 8 year old. In 1989, I graduated with a music degree and no idea how I was going to make money. So, I went back to a local state college to pursue my computer science degree. It was around that time that I had discovered one of the first versions of Microsoft Windows…

AI is the biggest shift I've seen in thirty years, bigger than the web browser. So we did what we've always done: learned it properly, bet the business on it, and started building."