Rick Barretto

An open letter

Welcome. This site is a working archive of a career spent building things in Indianapolis — “India-No-Place for technology,” as I like to call it — without VC, without Silicon Valley, and without anyone in my corner except my parents who took out a second mortgage to fund the first idea nobody believed in.

Everything you’ll see here — the companies, the inventions, the press, the SkillDNA — came out of a simple belief that if you see something five to seven years before anyone else, build the platform that makes it possible, and let the uses invent themselves.

My hope is that some small piece of this is useful to you — that it sparks an idea, validates a hunch, or reminds you that you don’t need permission to build what you can already see. Enjoy the ride.

— Rick