Erik says his early social-media posts and blog writing about Modal and cloud computing drove much of Modal's initial growth.

“So I, I think I had a little bit of a following, and so, you know, in the early days, I like a lot of what drove the growth was just like me just compulsively just like tweeting about Modal and like what I was building and getting people excited and writing long blog posts about where the cloud is going and all these things.”