We wasted a good year of time because in the beginning when we did our visualizations in the charts,

they were very hard-coded.

Oh, you wanted a bar chart? We went and built a bar chart.

Oh, you want a line chart? We went to build a line chart.

Oh, you want a candlestick chart? We built a candlestick chart.

As the visualizations people were looking for became more and more eccentric, It became too overwhelming to try to build out of the box custom-made charts each time.

And so we ended up throwing that out and replacing it with basically a math engine,

where now you can say I want to build a chart.

And now we have some, you know, our customers have built extremely

sophisticated charts. I'm Robert Cook, the CTO and founder of Three Forge.

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Ever since he was a little kid, Robert Cook always had a fascination with computers.

Even when he was super young, when he didn't know much about them, he was still intrigued by this magic box.

At the same time, he loved Legos, but found it was very expensive to expand his Lego set.

To contrast that, he could build as big as he wanted within a computer.

And he was hooked.

He built video games, explored databases, and even an accounting system in his teens.

As he started validating a new idea, Robert visited a number of top-tier banks and looked for consistency in the problem they were facing.

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