User:Evernotebrian/Evernote History Draft

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History

Foundation and early history

Evernote was founded in 2000 by Russian-American computer engineer and entrepreneur Stepan Pachikov.[1][2] Pachikov sought to develop a note-taking application that featured an infinite scroll, as seen in the note-taking feature on the Apple Newton handheld computer, which he had developed software for in the early 1990s.[1] The first versions of the Evernote app, then styled as EverNote, were developed for Windows XP, Pocket PC, and Microsoft Smartphone-based devices.[3] This early Windows-based version of the EverNote app, at its peak, had about 80,000 users.[1]

Growth and expansion

In 2007, Pachikov decided that he needed to replace himself as Evernote CEO and brought in

App Store.[1][6] The app had nearly two million users by November 2009.[7]

In October 2010, Evernote raised a $20 million funding round led by

Zurich, Moscow, and Beijing.[11] During this period, Evernote entered into promotional partnerships with companies including Samsung, Moleskine, and Deutsche Telekom.[12][13][14] It acquired Skitch, Readable, and Penultimate in order to broaden the app's feature base.[15][16][17] The company also expanded into ventures including a standalone food recipe and photo-sharing app and a retail marketplace for branded merchandise.[10][18][19]

Streamlining

In 2015, Libin stepped down as CEO and Chris O'Neill, previously an executive at Google, took over as chief executive.[20] Over the following nine months, Evernote laid off approximately 18 percent of its workforce, and in October 2015 announced it would close three of its 10 global offices.[10][1] It also shuttered its food, flashcard, and contract management apps, stopped selling merchandise, and canceled its annual developers' conference.[18][19][10]

In 2017, O'Neill directed his team to move Evernote's data to Google Cloud Platform and work began on unifying the app's codebase, which had previously been distinct for each client platform.[21][22] In June 2018, Evernote spun off its China-based service, Yinxiang Biji (印象笔记), into its own company, retaining a minority stake.[23] At the time, Yinxiang Biji had about 20 million users.[23] In September 2018, Evernote's chief technical officer, chief financial officer, chief people officer, and its head of human resources left the company, and it laid off 54 additional employees.[24][25]

Application redesign

In October 2018, former

Javascript as the implementation language for the unified version of Evernote, due to its performance across many platforms.[18] Evernote completed the codebase unification and app redevelopment in 18 months.[21]

In September 2020, the company released Evernote version 10 on

Windows, MacOS, and Android, with more uniform features and a consistent user interface across all platforms.[18][29]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f McCracken, Harry (August 14, 2018). "Inside Evernote's brain". Fast Company. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  2. ^ Kumar, Anshul (July 27, 2021). "Evernote Was Losing Its Market Share But…". Data Driven Investor. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  3. ^ McCracken, Harry (September 10, 2004). "Take a Note--Or Lots of Them". PCWorld. Archived from the original on August 31, 2018. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  4. ^ a b Winkler, Rolfe (September 15, 2015). "Evernote Founder Phil Libin Moves Into Venture Capital". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  5. ^ Libin, Phil (June 24, 2008). "Evernote Public Launch!". Evernote. Archived from the original on September 4, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  6. ^ Hamburger, Ellis (May 17, 2011). "These Were The 10 Best iPhone Apps When The App Store Launched In 2008". Business Insider. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  7. ^ Sande, Steve (November 19, 2009). "Phil Libin on the past, present, and future of Evernote". Engadget. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  8. ^ Reisinger, Don (October 19, 2010). "Evernote secures $20 million in investment round". CNet. Archived from the original on October 26, 2012. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  9. ^ Cutler, Kim-Mai (October 19, 2013). "Phil Libin on Evernote's Close Call". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  10. ^ a b c d Kim, Eugene (October 3, 2015). "Evernote Is In Deep Trouble". Business Insider. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  11. ^ Green, Laura (February 1, 2013). "How Phil Libin is building a 100-year start-up at Evernote Corp". Smart Business. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  12. ^ Volpe, Joseph (September 4, 2013). "Samsung Galaxy Note 3 makes official debut". Engadget. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  13. ^ McCarthy, Brad (October 20, 2012). "Evernote Moleskine notebook review: When digital and analog elegantly collide". The Next Web. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  14. ^ Ferguson, Tim (March 25, 2013). "DT signs up Evernote to provide Premium app". Mobile World Live. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  15. ^ Tsotsis, Alex (January 24, 2012). "Evernote Bought Four Companies Last Year And (Almost) Nobody Knew About It". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  16. ^ Caldwell, Serenity (August 18, 2011). "Evernote acquires Skitch, drops price". MacWorld. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  17. ^ Mitroff, Sarah (May 7, 2012). "Evernote acquires Penultimate, works on its handwriting skills". VentureBeat. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  18. ^ a b c d e f Summers, Nick (October 19, 2020). "Can Evernote make a comeback?". Engadget. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  19. ^ a b Griffith, Erin (June 28, 2019). "TA Unicorn Lost in the Valley, Evernote Blows Up the 'Fail Fast' Gospel". New York Times. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  20. ^ Hesseldahl, Arik (July 20, 2015). "Evernote Taps Former Google Glass Executive Chris O'Neill as New CEO". ReCode. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  21. ^ a b c Pierce, David (September 16, 2020). "Evernote's CEO on the company's long, tricky journey to fix itself". Protocol. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  22. ^ Vincent, James (September 17, 2020). "Evernote makes another bid for noteworthiness, starting with iOS redesign". The Verge. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  23. ^ a b Russell, Jon (June 7, 2018). "Evernote is spinning out its Chinese business and it plans to take it public". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  24. ^ Lunden, Ingrid (September 4, 2018). "Evernote lost its CTO, CFO, CPO and HR head in the last month as it eyes another fundraise". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  25. ^ Loizos, Connie (September 18, 2018). "Evernote just slashed 54 jobs, or 15 percent of its workforce". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  26. ^ Shu, Catherine (October 29, 2018). "Ian Small, former head of TokBox, takes over as Evernote CEO from Chris O'Neill". TechCrunch. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  27. ^ Aten, Jason (July 21, 2021). "Evernote Wants Another Chance at Being Your Everything Productivity Tool. Why It Just Might Work". Inc. Magazine. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  28. ^ Pierce, David (June 23, 2021). "How Evernote built its to-do list feature". Protocol. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
  29. ^ a b Peers, Nick (October 8, 2020). "Evernote 10 unveils a major redesign with improvements to note creation, formatting, and search". BetaNews. Retrieved February 4, 2022.
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