But Kapor wanted more he wanted a spreadsheet that would translate digits into graphs and calculate numbers at lightning speed, so he partnered with Jonathan Sachs to develop Lotus 1-2-3. He made $500,000 on the spreadsheet version, VisiCalc, before VisiCorp bought him out for $1.7 million. He had previously developed two business programs for VisiCorp: VisiTrend (a statistics program) and VisiPlot (a program that generated business charts). Kapor was 32 years old in April 1982, when he founded Lotus 1-2-3. The CIA also ordered 10,000 units for its agents and staff. Sheldon Laube, the CIO of Price Waterhouse, contracted for 10,000 copies of Lotus Notes the day before it launched, which contributed significantly to the product's acceptance and initial success. The product did not launch until five years later. Notes was founded and developed in 1984 by Ray Ozzie, Tim Halvorsen, and Len Kawell, with Steven Beckhardt soon to follow. But the greatest and most successful product was Lotus Notes (aka Domino/Notes), a new type of software program labeled "groupware," which was designed for several computer users to collaborate on projects from long-distance locations via a network. Many other Lotus products have come and gone through the years including Symphony, SmartSuite, and Lotus Works.
The following year, sales tripled to more than $150 million. released Lotus 1-2-3 for the IBM PC and grossed $53 million in sales. Thirty-one years ago, Massachusetts-based software developers Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs created a program an electronic spreadsheet that would change the world.
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