Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think
I remember reading this article about SAP a few months ago, and it just blew my mind: <a href="https://retool.com/blog/erp-for-engineers/" rel="nofollow">https://retool.com/blog/erp-for-engineers/</a><p>Here was an entire market segment I'd never heard of, and <i>just the market leader</i> is worth <i>$163B</i>. And on top of that, the technology is so totally alien to anything I'd ever heard of before. It's like an alternate-history kind of thing. Like if we discovered a continent somewhere in the Pacific that had never been in contact with our civilization and had steam-powered airships or some crap.<p>And I'm sure this is just one of many such industries, even just within the umbrella of software.