I initially worked as a consultant and a programmer here in Ottawa for about 10 years. My first job was working at Shirley's Bay in defence research. From there, I went on to work at Nortel. Then I worked on Wall Street at Merrill Lynch. At that point, I just had this “aha” moment when I realized that the job of programming software is repetitive and dull. Anything that is repetitive and dull is just begging to be automated. From there, I took what I was doing and came up with this idea that you could make apps from text. We raised about $3 million, and we created this prototype. That's how the company got started.
On December 7th, 2017. See this statement in context.