Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, with an international presence in Paris and Tokyo with a second US-based office in New York. It is the creator of the widely used Movable Type blogware, TypePad blog hosting service, and Vox, and the former owner of LiveJournal. The name is a reference to the six-day age difference between its married co-founders, Ben and Mena Trott.
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Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company headquartered in San Francisco, with an international presence in Paris and Tokyo with a second US-based office in New York. It is the creator of the widely used Movable Type blogware, TypePad blog hosting service, and Vox, and the former owner of LiveJournal. The name is a reference to the six-day age difference between its married co-founders, Ben and Mena Trott.
The company was founded in September 2001 after Ben, during a period of unemployment, wrote what became Movable Type to allow Mena to easily produce her weblog. When version 1.0 was put on the web, it was downloaded over 100 times in the first hour.
In 2003, Six Apart received initial venture capital funding from a group led by Joi Ito and his Neoteny Co., something which allowed the company to hire additional employees, acquire a French weblog publishing company, and unveil plans for what was to become its hosted weblog publishing system, TypePad. In 2004, Six...
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