Salesforce said companies spend $400B a year on integrations. The average enterprise runs 897 applications. Only 29% are integrated. 84% of integration projects fail. We've normalized spending more on connecting software than running it. That's a foundational problem.

60-80% of enterprise IT budgets go to maintaining existing systems. 51% of engineers have left or considered leaving a company because of technical debt. The takeaway: most engineering orgs spend their energy holding things together – not building or innovating

Enterprise software isn't complex because business is complex. It's complex because in 1970, we chose a storage model designed for filing cabinets and spent 50 years building compensation layers on top of it.