What Happened?
San Francisco, CA-based Meteor-Development-Group Appointed Matt DeBergalis as Founder
About the Company
Meteor is the JavaScript App Platform setting the standard for modern cloud/client architectures for mobile and web. Meteor`s JavaScript based framework is making app development radically simple for developers everywhere. The open source Meteor project is overseen by San Francisco-based Meteor Development Group, backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Y Combinator, and individual investors. Meteor was created in 2012 by Geoff Schmidt, Nick Martin, and Matt DeBergalis.
About the Person
Matt founded and ran ActBlue, the largest political fundraising platform in the world. ActBlue has raised over 700 million dollars for candidates and political groups nationwide. Before that, Matt was a kernel hacker. Some of his technical credits include the NeXT port of NetBSD and work on the NFSv4 and DAFS specifications while at Network Appliance. As an undergraduate at MIT, Matt built a phone system for his fraternity, fabricating the circuit boards and writing the operating system from scratch.
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