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My First 16: Creating a Supportive Builder Community with Plaid’s Zach Perret

Andreessen Horowitz

But along the way we found that the tool that we’d built was really interesting to a lot of other developers. So, myself and my co founder, we were kind of software developers, like kind of engineers by background. H ow did you guys think about the API that you wanted to launch with for other developers to build on?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

SaaStr

So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. Harry Hurst: So throughout my teens and early 20s, I built companies ranging from fashion distribution, all the way to headhunting and recruitment. This is actually one of the most exciting developments for me in SaaS.