We didn't stick to our guns quite enough, and so in the earliest stages people were telling us

you really need to have experimentation in here or you really need a mobile offering as well.

And so, for example, we hired contractors to do a mobile SDK for launch sharply, and the first version of it was just not very good.

It's really hard. We realized early on that our SDKs are pretty missionley and the first version of it was just not very good. It's really hard.

We realized early on that our SDKs are pretty mission critical and the quality of them has to be top-notch. They have to feel really native. They can't have any bugs. They can't introduce

massive performance overhead. Relying on a third party to build that just, it really doesn't

work. My name is John Cotomal.

I'm the CTO and co-founder of LaunchDarkley.

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John Cotomall grew up really into computers,

and he's old enough that during his childhood it was abnormal to be so into computers.

To illustrate just how much he was into computers, he told me a story about how he taught himself to touch type in grade school, using the Dvorak keyboard layout.

He's a family man with two children, a seven-year-old daughter and a five-year-old son.

And outside a family, he has a ton of hobbies and interests, including climbing.

In fact, his last trip before COVID hit, he took a bunch of friends and coworkers to ice climb in Colorado.

Over his entire career, John has been thinking about ways to deliver software better.

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