Bookman: Virtually All 90,000 US Municipalities Use 30-Year-Old Software
Zach Buchman · a16z Podcast | Government Transparency Powered by Software · Jan 2, 2019 · at 2:07
Zach Buchman is the CEO of OpenGov, a cloud platform for government finance and workflows.
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“Virtually every state and local government, there's about 90,000 in the United States, is using software that's often 30 years old.”
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