Pyra Labs
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Pyra Labs is the company who coined the word
Blogger, and made the service a big success.
The co-founders were Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan, and the company's
first product, also named 'Pyra', was a web application which would
combine a project manager, contact manager, and to-do list. In 1999,
while still in beta, the rudiments of Pyra were repurposed into an
in-house tool which became Blogger. The
service was made available to the public in August 1999, when likely
fewer than 100 weblogs existed. Much of this coding was done by Paul
Bausch and Matthew Haughey.
Initially, Blogger was completely free and
there was no revenue model. When the company's seed money dried up, the
employees continued without pay for weeks or, in some cases, months; but
this could not last, and eventually Williams faced a mass walk-out by
everyone including co-founder Hourihan. Williams ran the company
virtually alone until he was able to secure an investment by Trellix
after its founder Dan Bricklin became aware of Pyra's situation.
Eventually advertising-supported blogspot and
Blogger Pro emerged.
In 2002, Blogger was completely re-written in
order to license it to other companies, the first of which was Brazilian
mega-corp Globo.
The company was acquired by Google in 2003. The people at Pyra Labs at
the time of acquisition were Evan Williams, Jason Shellen, Steve Jenson,
Rudy Winnacker, Jason Sutter, and Jason Goldman.
In 2004, Evan Williams left Google.
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