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It’s really interesting being involved in a startup that hopes to change people’s lives. The most fascinating thing I find about technology is its application to human life, and whether it changes it. You know something is highly disruptive when it actually changes the way that people act, or the way they do something or even the way they will do something in the future.

If you look at the most successful technology companies on the planet - they all have changed human life in such a huge way. Take Google for example, before it was created, people would never have been able to find information as quickly as they can now. In creating any technology company, you want the technology you are producing to actually have a meaningful and positive impact on people’s lives - not simply be used as a way to generate income. Income and profit are typically by-products of a successful idea that has had real impact on human life. As much as people despise Microsoft, you could quite successfully argue that it was Microsoft which pioneered software and built huge in-roads into making programming ‘popular’. Put aside all the negative aspects of the company such as monopolistic and closed source behaviour - would Sergy Brin and Larry Page created Google or even been interested in programming if it wasn’t for companies such as Microsoft? I’m not entirely sure the outcome would have been the same.

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