Six Apart
Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company located in San Francisco, California, USA. It is the creator of the widely used Movable Type software, and offers the TypePad weblog service. 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 Trott wrote, during a period of unemployment, what became Movable Type as software to allow Mena to easily produce her blog. A version put on the web was downloaded 100 times in the first hour.
Six Apart received initial venture capital funding from a group led by Joi Ito and his Neoteny Co., as well as a second round from August Capital, which allowed it to make acquisitions of other companies. In January 2005, Six Apart purchased Danga Interactive, parent company of LiveJournal, from owner Brad Fitzpatrick, who was named Six Apart's chief architect. The combined user base is now over 7 million, and the merged company has 70 employees.
Its Silicon Valley-seasoned CEO is Barak Berkowitz. Prominent blogger Anil Dash joined the company in 2003.