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Dan Bricklin

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Dan Bricklin
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The spreadsheet. Bricklin, a Harvard Business School student tired of recalculating financial models by hand, designed VisiCalc with programmer Bob Frankston, and their company released it for the Apple II in 1979. Changing one number and watching the rest update made accountants and planners buy computers just to run it. They never patented the idea, and Lotus 1-2-3 and then Excel took the market.
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