Bob Frankston

Mr. Bob Frankston is a Member at CommonAngels, Inc. From 1966 to 1979, he worked at White-Weld and Company in their computer research division, which became Interactive Data Corporation in 1969, in various roles doing systems design and implementation.
White-Weld was one of the earliest financial information services and used the Scientific Data Systems 940 to provide time-sharing services.
In 1979, he founded Software Arts with Dan Bricklin to develop and sell VisiCalc.
VisiCalc was the first electronic spreadsheet program and remained a widely used program for personal computers for many years.
From 1985 to 1990, Mr. Frankston worked at Lotus Development, where he created the Lotus Express product and a Fax facility for Lotus Notes.
From 1990 to 1992, he worked at Slate Corporation on mobile and pen-based systems.
From 1993 to 1998, he worked at Microsoft, focusing on consumer computing and connectivity and created "no-new-wires" initiative.
Mr. Frankston holds BS degrees in both Computer Science and Mathematics from MIT and earned a Masters and Engineers Degrees in Computer Science from MIT in 1976.
At MIT he was in the Multics group at LCS.