Back in 2009, when we were really just getting started with what is now Timebinder, Mark and I went to see Dan Bricklin talk at the New York Tech Meetup. Dan is the co-inventor of the VisiCalc, the first spreadsheet program available for personal computers. One of the anecdotes that dan related was about hearing back from his users for the first time. It turned out that anesthesiologists were big fans of the new software. They were using it to calculate dosages for their patients. Dan described this as completely unexpected. No matter how much research you do, there will always be users and use cases that you have not anticipated. Some of those users will seem perfectly obvious in retrospect. Of Course! Anesthesiologists!

As we tighten the last screws on Timebinder prior to launch, I keep asking myself who our anesthesiologists are. To be honest, there’s no way of knowing. Still, I can’t wait to meet them.