Wanstrath: Developer capacity has replaced hardware as tech's primary constraint
Chris Wanstrath · a16z Podcast | What Software Developers (and Therefore Every Company) Need · Jan 2, 2019 · at 2:37
Chris Wanstrath, co-founder and CEO of GitHub, argues on an a16z panel that because cloud computing eliminated hardware availability issues, tech growth now relies on expanding the developer workforce.
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“Now we're getting to a place where you can, on your phone, go get CPUs and bandwidth, and the real constraint is software, and really you can't order more software. What you have to do is Get more people to create software because it's all powered by humans, so I think that's what's really interesting about our businesses and a lot of the transformation right now is we're going from a world where we're trying to create more physical goods to widen the amount of processing we can do to we need to figure out a way to get more people involved and make the people that are currently involved more productive because ultimately the world is thirsty and hungry for software and the only way you can get more of it is by creating more developers.”
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