Erik says that the poor infrastructure he encountered while building AI applications helped inspire Modal.

“And, and, and arguably like a lot of what sort of later became the genesis of Modal was, um, you know, just, just building AI applications and realizing, like, the infrastructure fucking sucks.”

“Like [chuckles] there's gotta be a better way to do that. So a lot, a lot of it sort of, you know, the rationale for, for Modal was like kind of building a tool I always wanted to have throughout my years at Spotify.”