Farzad 🇮🇷 🇺🇸
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most enterprise software costs more to maintain per year than it cost to build. that's the entire business model of your current vendor. every modernization project in the last decade has one of two outcomes. it goes 2-3x over budget and ships late. or it gets cancelled and the legacy system stays. why? nobody can extract the business logic from the old system. it lives in vendor heads. in stack overflow threads. in a comment from 2014 that says "don't touch this." AI just broke that model. an insurer we worked with replaced an $8M/year legacy vendor with a purpose-built system. $21M saved over four years. the maintenance era is ending. the rewrite era is starting. and it's faster than your CFO's last modernization RFP. reach out to us sales@8090.ai to vent about your current vendor.
Replit left San Francisco for Foster City. The "why" we're leaving is boring, sad, and predictable (crime, dysfunction, etc), so instead let me tell you why we chose Foster City. Foster City embodies the American post-war optimism and the long-lost California pro-growth mentality. in 1958 businessman Jack Foster set out to build "a master-planned community concept"; in 1960 bought Brewer Island, a largely undeveloped land used for salt evaporation and dairy farming; in 1961 started building, and in 1964, the first family moved in. By 1966, more than 5,000 people were living there. Can you imagine how long it would take to build such a project today? The city is also known for its innovative engineering, particularly its "Venice-like" lagoon system. Instead of employing massive landfills to elevate the terrain for development, engineers devised a system of lagoons that provided essential drainage and a super cool aesthetic landscape. Finally, the city is super livable. When Haya and I moved to California, we first took residence there and, in fact, incorporated Replit here. Our first bank was Wells Fargo, a few steps from our new office. It's relatively affordable compared to the rest of the Bay Area and has a healthy mix of residential, commercial, and recreational spaces. Downtown San Mateo is a bridge away, a fun place to hang out or live. Finally, in the Bay Area, almost every town has an associated iconic tech company. When you think of Mountain View, you think of Google; when you think of Cupertino, you think of Apple. My hope is that in the future, when you think of Foster City, you'll think of Replit.
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