What was the inspiration for creating Compound, as it doesn't appear to be a conventional 'scratching your own itch' type of startup?

My background is in software engineering. Candidly, I kinda hate finance (all the numbers and acronyms frustrate me). We started Compound because we saw way too many of our friends get screwed over by startup equity and realized that there was a long-term business to be built helping people (like me) not have to worry so much about their finances.