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CircleCI Born From Frustrating CI
- Paul founded CircleCI after struggling with a poor CI server at Mozilla.
- He improved developer workflow by adding features like retrying builds with the same environment.
From Coder To CEO Burnout
- Paul enjoyed early-stage coding but disliked CEO tasks like sales and comp plans.
- He left the CEO role once the job became more about company ops than building product.
Remove Infrastructure As The Default
- Dark aims to remove incidental infrastructure complexity from backend development.
- It treats input, computation, and data as the essential primitives and hides servers, deployment, and infra details.


