Your comment here and your linked comment address different concerns to me. Your 2015 comment was security/privacy focused and i believe appropriately so. Your comment today surprises me. I'd argue that "tech for non-tech people" accurately describes most successful businesses outside of devops-focused SaaS in the last 5 years. Heck i'd argue slack is "tech for non-tech people"
Granted i know little about Blockspring, but no funding events in 3.5 years after a 3.5MM round with 11-50 employees[1] sounds like financial traction to me. Maintaining a < $1M burn for over 3 years with > 10 employees isn't easy. And such napkin math assumes they sold while staring down impending bankruptcy. Possible, but its a tale rife with speculation.
> I'd argue that "tech for non-tech people" accurately describes most successful businesses outside of devops-focused SaaS in the last 5 years. Heck i'd argue slack is "tech for non-tech people"
To clarify, I was more against the "killing of spreadsheets" the linked a16z article mentioned as it seemed to offer a solution that was more complicated than the problem it solves.
You do have a point about SaaSes making things easier for nontech people. Airtable, for example, expanded on spreadsheets to make them better and playing to their strengths, instead of trying to kill them.
Granted i know little about Blockspring, but no funding events in 3.5 years after a 3.5MM round with 11-50 employees[1] sounds like financial traction to me. Maintaining a < $1M burn for over 3 years with > 10 employees isn't easy. And such napkin math assumes they sold while staring down impending bankruptcy. Possible, but its a tale rife with speculation.
1: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/blockspring