I started Cirrus Labs in 2017 in the spirit of Bell Labs. I wanted to work on fun and challenging engineering problems, in the hope of bootstrapping a business as a byproduct. The mission was to help fellow engineers with new kinds of tooling and environments that would make them more efficient and productive in the era of cloud computing. Even the name reflected that ambition: Cirrus, inspired by cirrus clouds, one of the highest clouds in the sky. We never raised outside capital. That let us s...