WHO IS JOHN WALKER ?

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AUTO DESK FOUNDER --- JOHN WALKER

In 1982, Walker and 12 other programmers pooled $59,000 to start Autodesk, and began working on several computer applications. The first to be completed was AutoCAD,a software application for computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting. AutoCAD which had begun life as InteractCAD, written by programmer Michael Riddle in a proprietary language; Walker and Riddle rewrote the program, and had a profit-sharing agreement for any product derived from InteractCAD. Walker subsequently paid Riddle US$10 million for all the rights.

By mid-1986, the company had grown to 255 employees with annual sales of over $40 million.That year, Walker resigned as chairman and president of the company, continuing to work as a programmer. In 1989, Walker's book, The Autodesk File, was published. It describes his experiences at Autodesk, based around internal documents (particularly email) of the company.

Walker moved to Switzerland in 1991. By 1994, when he resigned from the company, it was the sixth-largest personal computer software company in the world, primarily from the sales of AutoCAD. Walker owned about $45 million of stock in Autodesk at the time.

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