blist grew today. Probably more importantly we matured organizationally today. We’ve deliberately assembled a lean, agile core team of mostly engineers, UX designers, our online marketing director and me. Today Adam joins us as our first product manager. Adam is excited to engage with our community of users. He’ll start answering questions and providing advice in our forums. He’ll take your requests for new features, make sense of them, and help prioritize getting them incorporated into blist. He’ll start developing some screencasts to show you how key features work. He’ll keep the FAQ up to date. He’ll work with our designers to make sure blist really is the world’s easiest database. He’ll help with the high level roadmap ensuring we’re focusing on the right broad themes.

Adam’s another smart guy. He has degrees in both Math and Physics from Johns Hopkins University. He’s spent the last few years behind the scenes in politics – helping build grassroots organizations to support the causes about which he’s extremely passionate. It was in the distributed, itinerant arena of politics that Adam realized how powerful databases could be for mainstream users, if only they were easy enough. His passion for easy databases led him to blist. We loved his energy, drive and customer empathy and welcomed his unorthodox preparation for the world of product management.

Someone who’s smart, a great grassroots organizer and loves databases sounds like the perfect background for our first product manager. We look forward to the many great contributions he’s going to make to blist. So join me in welcoming Adam to the blist team.