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Ethan Diamond co-founded Oddpost, the web-based email service universally recognized as the Eighth Greatest Achievement in the History of the Web, rightly beating out eBay, Craigslist and even JenniCam yet inexplicably trailing behind Mosaic and Amazon. Oddpost was acquired by Yahoo! in 2004, and three years later Ethan left to start Bandcamp. Prior to Oddpost, Ethan worked at Adobe, where he met Neal and Joe throwing things off the roof, and then Halfbrain, where he and Shawn pioneered the use of Ajax in the reimplementation of absolutely everything that gramps tells you was already working just fine as a desktop app. Ethan’s interests are HTML and DHTML. He is a graduate.

Before helping to engineer Yahoo! Mail, Oddpost and Halfbrain.com, Shawn Grunberger helped negotiate the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. It was nontrivial.

Joe Holt is a programmer. California-bred, he labored for two decades at Apple and Adobe, but only a fool believes his claims that he co-wrote the very first version of Acrobat, four versions of Illustrator, iMovie and an assortment of unshippable chefs-d’œuvre. In addition to working with Bandcamp, Joe is a professor at Bennington College, Vermont where he creates clones. He didn’t teach Shawn everything he knows. Working with Ethan is a second honeymoon.

Neal Tucker is one of the few people on Earth with the distinction of having been sentenced to 40 hours of community service by his own company’s HR department. After leaving Adobe under murky circumstances, he spent 9 years being “the unix guy” on various teams at Microsoft, which forever brands him “the Windows guy” everywhere else. Much of his career has been spent writing software for embedded devices, so he’s looking forward to stretching his legs on web server code for a while. Neal lives in Seattle, where his hobbies include welding, being comfortable, and trying to convince his wife that it’s normal to wear pajamas until 3pm.