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If people want to code, and they want to be entrepreneurs, there's opportunities for them to do that.

It's worth noting that everything - from the Internet to electric cars, genomic sequencing, mobile apps, and social media - were pioneered by startups, not existing companies.

Will the industry outsource more? I think it depends on the client base.

Internally, we're focused on building our own technology, leveraging all the momentum that's out there around wearable computing and mobile computing and PC computing. But at the end of the day, all the code we've written and all the invention we've created has been focused on our own tech and our own products.

The other part of outsourcing is this: it simply says where the work can be done outside better than it can be done inside, we should do it.

The important thing about outsourcing or global sourcing is that it becomes a very powerful tool to leverage talent, improve productivity and reduce work cycles.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, small teams trying to make hits in a tough business. Then, when I started working on the Web 2.0 events, it was web startups during times of enormous opportunity and investment.

Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.

In the long run, outsourcing is another form of trade that benefits the U.S. economy by giving us cheaper ways to do things.