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4−title: Company + Team
4+title: Team
55author: Tlon
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7−preview: A bit about who we are and how our company, Tlon, relates to Urbit the open-source project.
7+preview:
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1616
1717## History
1818
19−Curtis started working on Urbit in 2002. By 2011 he h
19+Curtis started working on Urbit in his garage in 2002. By 2008 he'd
20+finished Nock, a productivity level of approximately 1 bit per day.
21+By 2012 Hoon was essentially in its present form. By 2014, he had a
22+prototype of Arvo, and used it to raise a little seed funding so we
23+all could join him.
2024
21−In 2002 Curtis went down to his garage with a question in mind: can
22−you build a computer whose state is just a number, and whose updates
23−are a single simple function? In 2008 Nock worked pretty well, in
24−2012 Hoon compiled itself to Nock and in 2014 we raised a little
25−funding with the first prototype of Arvo.
25+Urbit in early 2014 did most of the things it does today, but
26+badly. For example, Urbit has chat and a shell now, and it had
27+both in 2014. But in 2014, chat was built into the network
28+module and the shell was a kernel module. Operating systems are
29+hard (but fun).
2630
2731## Tlon
2832
29−Urbit is completely, 100% open source, and always will be. We started
30−a company, Tlon, to support the development of the platform. Tlon
31−owns roughly half of the Urbit address space, and operates with a
32−simple business model: use the value of Urbit address space to
33−bootstrap the development of the Urbit platform. The name Tlon is a
34−reference to a Borges story.
33+Urbit is open source (MIT license) and patent-free.
3534
36−## Team
35+Tlon (named after a Borges story) is a vehicle for using the
36+potential value of the Urbit address space to make Urbit real.
37+Tlon owns about 40% of the address space (95 galaxies).
3738
38−We’re a small team based in San Francisco that values open,
39−independent thinking and spirited debate. We try to foster an
40−environment where thoughtful criticism can quickly turn into better
41−design and better code. If you think you could be a good fit [send us
42−an email](urbit@urbit.org).
39+Another 50 galaxies are reserved for a future nonprofit. Tlon's
40+long-term goal is to become a boring real-estate investment
41+trust, and shift development control to a Mozilla-style
42+foundation / community. This will not happen any time soon.
43+
44+## People
45+
46+Some companies are all about cultural uniformity. We couldn't
47+differ more. No two people at Tlon see the world eye-to-eye.
48+
49+Galen (CEO) is a surfer from Santa Cruz with an [architecture
50+degree](http://cooper.edu). Curtis (CTO) is a former CS grad student
51+who loves [old
52+books](https://books.google.com/books/about/The_True_History_of_the_American_Revolut.html?id=SZccAAAAMAAJ).
53+Anton is a rationalist Bolshevik and trained baritone. Philip is
54+a home-schooled Christian and baseball fan. Henry is a
55+prep-school soccer player and expert in horizontal marketing.
4356
4457**Galen Wolfe-Pauly** <br />
4558Founder, CEO<br />
@@ -47,11 +60,11 @@ Recommended reading: Samuel Beckett, Christopher Alexander
4760
4861**Curtis Yarvin** <br />
4962Founder, CTO<br />
50−Recommended reading: James C Scott, Ernst Junger
63+Recommended reading: James Burnham, Ernst Juenger
5164
5265**Anton Dyudin** <br />
5366Engineer<br />
54−Recommended reading: Asmiov
67+Recommended reading: Isaac Asimov
5568
5669**Philip Monk** <br />
5770Engineer<br />