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Neil Carvin

40 Years Later, Lessons From the Rise and Quick Decline of the First ‘Killer App’

The story of VisiCalc, a humble spreadsheet program that set the tech world ablaze 40 years ago, has reverberated through the industry and still influences the decisions of executives, engineers and investors. Its lessons include the power of simplicity and the difficulty of building a hypergrowth company in a hypergrowth industry.

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40 Years Later, Lessons From the Rise and Quick Decline of the First ‘Killer App’

40 Years Later, Lessons From the Rise and Quick Decline of the First ‘Killer App’

VisiCalc, the world’s first spreadsheet, took the nascent personal computing world by storm, and just as suddenly ceased to exist—in the process, writes Christopher Mims, it transformed how companies are built and how all of us make decisions