, 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, during a period of unemployment, wrote what became Movable Type to allow Mena to easily produce her weblog. When version 1.0 was put on the web, it was downloaded over 100 times in the first hour
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In
2003 , Six Apart received initial
Venture Capital funding from a group led by
Joi Ito and his Neoteny Co., something which allowed the company to hire additional employees, acquire a French weblog publishing company, and unveil plans for what was to become its hosted weblog publishing system, TypePad. In
2004 , Six Apart completed a second round of funding with
August Capital , a move 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. In
March 2006 , Six Apart announced the acquisition of the
SplashBlog camera phone blogging service. The combined user base is now over 7 million, and the merged company has more than 100 employees
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Its
Silicon Valley -seasoned
CEO is
Barak Berkowitz . Prominent weblogger
Anil Dash joined the company in
2003 , as did the former head of
Wired Digital Andrew Anker . Six Apart's Board of Directors consists of Barak Berkowitz, Mena Trott,
David Marquardt ,
David Hornik ,
Reid Hoffman and Jun Makihara.
