Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy, where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses. I am so excited to have today’s guest on, for personal reasons. We’re here to talk about his new company Scalyr. I, in preparing for this interview, saw that he is the founder of a company called Writely and very few people will remember, but every one of us is using right now.
I remember when Writely came out, they said, hey, this whole thing of like Wikis and word processing, we can do it online in a browser. And I remember when he first created it, it not only worked, it was beautiful, a thing of art. I remember . . . I’m getting worked up here. I remember at the time talking to Jimmy Wales, and the thing that annoyed him, I think, was when I said to him, did you intentionally make the editor of the Wiki ugly to prevent stupid people from editing?
And you can see why he’d...