Viaweb
Web-based online store builder, founded in 1995; bought by Yahoo in 1998 and renamed Yahoo! Store.
At a glance
Who owns it
Owned by Yahoo since 1998.
People
Paul Graham, Robert Tappan Morris and Trevor Blackwell
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- Viaweb was a web application that let people build and host their own online stores from a web browser, with little technical expertise.
- Paul Graham, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell started it in July 1995; it was first called Webgen and was partly written in Lisp.
- Yahoo bought it in 1998 for 455,000 shares, about $49 million, and renamed it Yahoo!
- Store.
- Graham's essays about it, and his later work at Y Combinator, made it an influential example in Silicon Valley.
Key facts
- Founded
- July 1995, by Paul Graham, Robert Morris and Trevor Blackwell1
- Product
- Build and host an online store in a web browser; partly written in Lisp1
- Acquired
- By Yahoo in 1998, for 455,000 shares (about $49 million); renamed Yahoo! Store1
Who owns it
Owned by Yahoo since 1998.
Parent company
- Yahoo
acquired for 455,000 shares, about $49 million · since 1998 1
People
Founded by
- Paul GrahamPerson
since Jul 1995 1
- Robert Tappan MorrisPerson
since Jul 1995 1
- Trevor BlackwellPerson
since Jul 1995 1
Links
Sources
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