Yakabod

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We’re folks doing stuff that matters. Yakabod was founded in 2001 by a couple of technology pioneers tired of wasting billable hours on stuff that didn’t matter. In search of more meaningful work, they decided to shake up the atrophied world of enterprise software—specifically, the catchall category labeled “knowledge management.” Scott Ryser and Scott Williamson figured there was no reason large-scale KM couldn’t be as intuitive as an iPhone, as secure as Fort Knox, and deployable in weeks instead of years. So they spent the next few years bringing their vision to life, with Scott W. holed up in a Virginia farmhouse writing code and Scott R. running operations from his spare bedroom. Version 1.0 of the Yakabox debuted in 2003, and the United States Department of Defense bought the first one. Today, thousands of Yakabox users worldwide use the system to accomplish real work—stuff that matters—instead of hunting for, waiting for, and re-creating the information they need to do their jobs. We’re committed to lives that matter. It’s satisfying to go home at night knowing our efforts count. Rather than generating piles of meaningless paper (and lines of meaningless code), at Yakabod we’re doing all we can to make work more interesting, human beings more productive, and the world a better place.

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