Founder Interviews: Steve Newman of Scalyr
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Please welcome Steve Newman, the man who created Google Docs, and the current founder of Scalyr.Davis Baer: What’s your background, and what are you working on?Steve Newman: I’m an engineer and, I guess I’m supposed to say “serial entrepreneur” but I’m more comfortable with “startup guy.” I’ve co-founded six startups, including Writely, “The Web Word Processor.” We were acquired by Google in 2006 and relaunched as Google Docs. The original motivation for Writely was to help people collaborate to create a document — or as we thought about it, “solving the problem of having to email Word files back and forth.” And of course people do use Google Docs to collaborate, but a lot of the value turned out to be in having access from anywhere.Currently I’m CEO of Scalyr, where we’re attacking the problem of (...)
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