Lessons From Building the First Killer App

Dan Bricklin, co-creator of VisiCalc and builder joins us to talk about how people adopt new tools. We go from how VisiCalc launched on the Apple II into a world where few knew what a computer was to why he thinks most AI tools haven't found their real interface yet. 02:19 How the first electronic spreadsheet was made 07:05 People buying hardware just to run the software 08:13 Why the spreadsheet had to be 100x easier 18:19 Why Excel still can't be replaced 20:10 How people adopt new tools 27:13 VisiCalc made accountants better, not obsolete 36:14 The cornucopia of the commons 44:14 Do we want chauffeurs or tools 46:11 Advice for builders