Almost a decade ago, Marc Andreessen penned the famous “Why Software is Eating the World” essay which was amazingly prescient. His arguments on why every company needs to be a software company becomes even more evident in our post-COVID-19 reality where companies like Amazon, UberEats and DoorDash are now considered essential services.

While I was mapping out the concepts around building software, I noticed a recurring theme across the world of bits and bytes. Almost everything is an abstraction of something else and this I believe, is the reason why software is bound to permeate across every aspect of our lives.