The Rise of Evernote: An Interview with CEO Phil Libin (Part 1) | Xconomy
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The Mountain View, CA, startup runs a digital notekeeping service with more than 3.2 million users, a number that’s growing by 5,000 to 10,000 per day, CEO Phil Libin says. Longtime Xconomy readers know that I’m a major fan of Evernote, having relied on it as my main digital repository ever since the company’s combined desktop, Web, and mobile service debuted in 2008. It also went back to the drawing board on its technology, spending about a year redesigning its original Windows storage software to work across multiple platforms, including the Web and mobile devices. (It seems appropriate that the iPhone, and now the iPad, are now such important vehicles for Evernote, given that Pachikov is known as one of the fathers of automatic handwriting recognition, and was involved in the creation of the Apple Newton back in the early 1990s.) The company was at profitability, and just needed … Next Page » Wade Roush is a freelance science and technology journalist and the producer and host of the podcast Soonish.
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