Albert Santalo, 8base: Building the Software of the Future, Ep 110

<p><span style="font-weight: 400; font-size: 24pt;">Albert Santalo, 8base: Building the Software of the Future, Ep 110<br /> <br /></span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Albert Santalo launched two successful tech companies from South Florida during economic recessions. The first company was right after 9/11 and a year after the dotcom bubble had burst. He recalls that being an entrepreneur in those times was like being “the scourge of the economy.” The second company was in the midst of the 2008 global financial crisis. This company was Carecloud, a cloud-based health tech company that currently processes billions of dollars in annualized accounts receivable.</span></p> <p><span style= "font-weight: 400; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Now Albert is the founder and CEO of 8base, a low-code development platform that helps entrepreneurs bring their digital products to life. Founders, particularly, non-technical founders can use 8base to get their products up and running in a faster and more economical way. He states that by 2024, 65% of the software will be written using low-code platforms.</span></p> <p><span style= "font-weight: 400; font-size: 24pt;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, I sat down with Albert to talk about why low-code platforms are the future of software development and how he got started on his entrepreneurial journey. He explains what it was like to start a business in times of economic uncertainty and how becoming an entrepreneur changed him as a person. We also discuss the impact of COVID-19 on the workplace and what he thinks the future of remote work will be.</span></p> <h3><span style="font-weight: 400;">Learning how to execute </span></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Albert became fascinated with computers from a young age. He took his first computing class when he was in high school in the early days of microcomputing. Even though he always envisioned starting his own business, he didn’t exactly know what tha