THE DATAMOLOGY COMPANY

I was employee #40 at Platinum technology, a startup commercial software development firm, and served there for 10 years as we grew into the 8th largest software vendor in the world with $1b in annual revenue by specializing in relational database tools and utilities. I led development of their ad hoc query and reporting products (which eventually grossed $100m in revenue) and their data warehousing product line until the company was acquired by Computer Associates in what was, at the time, the largest cash deal in the history of the software industry... I joined Ernie Anderson (a colleague from my Platinum days) and his partner to found The Datamology Company in 2002. He had begun development of a spreadsheet-based data analysis product for Windows, and wanted to expand its scope and release it to the public. We built it into a production-quality exploratory data analysis (EDA) tool and released the first complete version of VisiCube in May, 2004. Soon after, my partners decided to..