Dan Bricklin

Dan Bricklin is known for co-creating the VisiClac spreadsheets program. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 16th, 1951. He Attended the Akiba Hebrew Academy during high school years. He went to college at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Where he recieved his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering and computer science. He later got his Master of Business Administration from Harvard University in 1979. After getting out of Harvard University, he co-founded Software Arts Inc. and began to sell VisiCalc software, which was the first spreadsheet software of its time for personal computers. In 1985, he lift Software Arts Inc. to found Software Gardens. He then co-founded the Slate Corporation in 1990. He soon returned to Software Gardens in 1994 when the Slate Corporation closed down. In 1995, he founded the Trellix corporation, which was later bought by Interland, which is now Web.com.