Stripe Patrick and John Collison

And, you know, it’s funny, it’s only kind of looking back on it that this sort of becomes clear. I mean, from a very early stage, I was interested in sort of working on tools or just kind of building things that created leverage for others and that basically, the whole point of working on this programming language was to provide a tool that would make it easier for others to build things.

And so, you know, I didn't consciously think about it this way at the time - you know, kind of starting Stripe or whatever. But basically, all the things that I've worked on, kind of somewhat seriously, have in some ways been kind of tools for creation.

This piece specifically speaks to me. If I had to sum up my “gig” in this manner, it would be building tools for developers to create awesome user experiences and UIs.