An accountant learned Python and the QuickBooks Online API, automated his entire job, then built that automation into a product to sell. He went from full-time accounting to full-time development without leaving the company.
One thing led to another. Perl led to Python at my next job, and before you know it, I was kind of deep in QuickBooks Online API, which I consider myself the world's expert on. You know, I started taking private clients. I reached a certain threshold, went full-time with it. Now I'm trying to productize the software so that we can get the widest possible benefit, right? I don't want to only benefit from it internally for our tax practice. I want to share that software, which I think is— I think it's good. So would you say you became developer before you became firm owner essentially? Yeah, I would. I would say I automated my own full-time job and then I used the free time— don't tell my old boss this— to develop a capability that was more scalable.
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