EtherPad

Aaron Iba, Chief Executive Officer

Before founding AppJet with David, Aaron worked at Google writing algorithms for improving search quality. Aaron and David have a history of doing great things together. As co-captains of their high school math team, they led Lexington High to numerous top spots nationally. While at MIT, they founded the Robocraft Programming Competition (now called BattleCode), which is the largest college programming competition in the country. Aaron holds a degree in mathematics from MIT.

David Greenspan, President & Chief Scientist

David left his graduate program in Computer Science at MIT to join AppJet. He is the resident expert on client-side and server-side JavaScript, the Java VM, and mathematical operations on text. He holds a degree in physics from MIT. While at MIT, he wrote a machine vision system for an autonomous submarine and did research in the areas of distributed sensor networks and Bayesian image processing. David started two successful companies with Aaron prior to AppJet.

J.D. Zamfirescu, Chief Technology Officer

J.D. left Google to join AppJet. He is our systems expert and wrote the webserver and the persistent connection infrastructure that run EtherPad and transmit updates in really real-time. At Google, J.D. built backend systems for the Health product. He holds bachelors and masters degrees in computer science from MIT, where he researched high-performance massively-distributed systems and was a member of the HKN and TBP honor societies.

Daniel Clemens, Chief Operating Officer

Prior to joining AppJet, Daniel worked as an Associate Product Manager at Google for a brief period before venturing off on his own to become the Founder and CEO of a technology start-up focused on improving global education. Daniel lectured to thousands of students and educators and was featured in magazines and television programs throughout Europe, Asia and North America. Prior to that, Daniel was the Chief Strategy Officer at Sirius Advisors, an asset management fund responsible for managing $1.2 billion dollars for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Daniel graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Yale University, where he received his bachelors and masters degrees and received the top prize in the social sciences for his senior thesis exploring strategic bargaining between different branches of government. He was named one of the top twenty scholars in America by USA Today. As a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, Daniel pursued a doctorate at Oxford which explored the ways collaborative communications and social networking technologies would expand social capital around the world. An NCAA Academic All-American, Daniel was a member of the Varsity Tennis Team at Yale and Oxford.

David Cole, Lead Designer

David wishes he could live on the moon but until then he'll spend his time designing anything he can from websites to ice cream trucks. Helping startups find their visual voice is his modus operandi but he can also be found strategizing, crafting interfaces, drawing icons, writing copy and coding. David holds no degrees from MIT, but he could probably fake one in Photoshop.

Mitch Kapor is the founder of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the "killer application" often credited with making the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. He has been at the forefront of the information technology revolution for a generation as an entrepreneur, investor, social activist, and philanthropist. Other organizations in which Mitch has played an important role include UUNET (founding investor), the first successful independent commercial Internet Service Provider; The Electronic Frontier Foundation (co-founder), which protects freedom and privacy on the Internet; Real Networks (founding investor), which pioneered the use of streaming media over the Internet; the Mozilla Foundation (founding Chair), maker of the open source web browser Firefox; and Linden Research (founding investor, Board Chair), the creator of the first successful open virtual world, Second Life. He received a B.A. from Yale College in 1971 and studied psychology, linguistics, and computer science as part of an interdisciplinary major in Cybernetics.

Paul Graham is an essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. In 2002 he described a simple statistical spam filter that inspired a new generation of filters. He's currently working on a new programming language called Arc, a new book on startups, and is one of the partners in Y Combinator.

Paul is the author of On Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1993), ANSI Common Lisp (Prentice Hall, 1995), and Hackers & Painters (O'Reilly, 2004). He has an AB from Cornell and a PhD in Computer Science from Harvard, and studied painting at RISD and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.

Paul Buchheit is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He was the creator and lead developer of Gmail. He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail. He also suggested the company's now-famous motto "Don't be evil" in a 2000 meeting on company values.

Buchheit grew up in Rochester, New York and went to college at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He worked at Intel and later became the 23rd employee at Google.

Sanjeev Singh co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former Google employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008.

While at Google Sanjeev worked on Google Mail and the Google Search Appliance. Prior to Google, he worked at social annotations site Third Voice and a government research lab.

Seth Goldstein is a successful angel investor and start-up entrepreneur.

As Co-Founder and Chairman of Attentiontrust.org, Seth is a strong advocate for the rights of individuals to their own data. Currently, Seth is the CEO of Social Media, a technology company focused on serving more relevant ads on social networks.

Seth was the founder of one of the first Internet advertising agencies, SiteSpecific, in 1995, and was entrepreneur-in-residence at Flatiron Partners. In 2002, he co-founded Majestic Research on the premise that rigorous analysis of online behavior would lead to better investment research. Majestic has emerged as an important new research firm on Wall Street, counting among its clients leading hedge funds and mutual funds. In 2005, he founded Root Markets, with legendary financial architect Lewis Ranieri as Chairman and lead investor, and CBOT/CME, New York Times and Deutsche Bank as strategic partners; Root has created the first financial services-style marketplace for Internet leads. Seth was an original investor and advisor to del.icio.us.