Nice lunch for SPS Tower tenants today.
Work
Elixir’s Agentic Product Team
I’ve been exploring and engaging in agentic software deeply for a couple of months now with a number of my own projects to learn with. Thus far, nearly all of what I’ve done has been driven by me often with an LLM assisting in the framing of the thing I’m looking to build. I …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Elixir's Agentic Product TeamMinnesota Technology Council
I had my first official meeting of the Technology Advisory Council a week ago. I was honored to be accepted into this group with an official appointment from Governor Walz. The role of the council is to advise Minnesota IT Services (MNIT). The group is preparing for transition …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Minnesota Technology CouncilI was ecstatic to share with TeamSPS that we now have an enterprise agreement for Claude. It was fun to get to share the stage with Erica Koenig to make the announcement noting the incredible capabilities we are putting into peoples hands. This is just the beginning.
We had a great presence from TeamSPS at the Aspirations in Computing awards event tonight and welcomed three of the four high-school interns that will be working with us this summer!
Was great to take SPS colleagues to Boludo including Eduardo who grew up in Argentina and gave us the background from growing up there!
Hypergrowth
This growth is hard to even comprehend. Anthropic says Claude Code is now growing revenues at a $2.5 billion run-rate, a number that has doubled since January 1. Claude Code was launched in May 2025. Six months later it was at $1 billion. Its sales are growing faster than a 1980s …
Keep reading · 1 minute: HypergrowthSoftware Is Liquid
This started as a talk I gave internally to a group of technology leaders. I’ve adapted it here, stripping out the company-specific material, because the core ideas apply well beyond any one organization. I want to throw out some ideas about what I think is changing in our …
Keep reading · 10 minutes: Software Is LiquidGood final CIO Panel at MnTech Connect with Teddy Bekele (Land O’Lakes), Sutha Sivasubramaniam (Optum), Jennifer Czaplewski (Target), and Mike Bollinger (Livefront) and a special appearance from Senator Amy Klobuchar via video.
We got most of the TeamSPS folks at MnTech Connect together for a group photo.
