​"We were at the crossroads of our careers. We were thinking, we should work on something exciting, and at the time, we were all working on products that we weren’t the primary users of. We’ve always thought that if we were working on developer tools, it would be so great. We wouldn’t even need product managers because we know what’s wrong with the product because we’d be using it everyday. 

We saw development environments as a problem that we all face but hadn’t been solved yet. We were confident that if we put our minds to it, we’d be able to solve it once and forever. People wouldn’t be talking about developer environment problems, similar to how people don’t talk about web app hosting problems anymore because of Heroku. We wanted to be that company to solve it."