Personal software booms: employee-built tools become an IT nightmare
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-16
FinanceYF5 threads two trends: "personal software" is exploding as employees build small tools for their own jobs — a productivity win but an IT visibility nightmare; and product companies are becoming product studios that continuously incubate new products, exemplified by Greg Isenberg's meetLCA, a "Labs as a Service" company.
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