Adam Broadway, platformOS | How to drop out of school and then build a multi-million dollar tech company

Adam Broadway is humble, curious, and down to earth. He dropped out of school and became a checkout clerk at his local Australian grocery store. While people were mocking him, he spent his lunch breaks at a nearby computer store. He met the engineer who ran the store, got to know her, and she taught him computer science.

Fast forward many years later and Adam moved to Silicon Valley. He could speak to developers in their language, but he is also so grounded that he understands how customers respond to technology.

He met many app developers with great ideas who were struggling with the performance, reliability, and scalability. Poor development has a devastating impact on customer experience (CX), but it traditionally costs a lot of time and money to do development well. So Adam built PlatformOS to supply the infrastructure app developers need to build efficiently, frugally, and in a manner sensitive to customers.

Adam never let his schooling get in the way of his education. He surrounded himself with a team that is as curious as he is. They want to learn about every aspect of developing tooling and improving customer experience. Like Adam, they do some from a place of caring deeply about developers and end users.