Party Like It’s 1849: The Developer Tools Gold Rush

“You can’t make money selling to developers.”
That was a common axiom that permeated the venture community as recently as a few years ago. But just in the last couple of quarters, GitHub, Stripe, Twilio and Slack have all raised giant rounds, valuing each company at at least one billion dollars.
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Every organization in the world is in the midst of transforming in some way, shape or form into a software organization. 

http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/04/party-like-its-1849-the-developer-tools-gold-rush/