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Six Apart Ltd., sometimes abbreviated 6A, is a software company located in San Francisco, California. It is the creator of the widely used Movable Type blogware, and offers the TypePad blog hosting service. The name is a reference to the six day age difference between its married co-founders, Ben and Mena Trott. The company was founded in September 2001 after Ben, during a period of unemployment, wrote what became Movable Type to allow Mena to easily produce her weblog. When version 1.0 was put on the web, it was downloaded over 100 times in the first hour.• June 2006 saw the release of their new Web 2.0 blogging platform, Vox. Its Silicon Valley-seasoned CEO is Barak Berkowitz. Prominent weblogger Anil Dash joined the company in 2003, as did the former head of Wired Digital Andrew Anker. Six Apart's Board of Directors consists of Barak Berkowitz, Mena Trott, David Marquardt, David Hornik, Reid Hoffman and Jun Makihara. On September 6, 2006 Six Apart bought Rojo.com. President Chris Alden became executive vice president of Six Apart and general manager of Movable Type. CTO Aaron Emigh became executive vice president and general manager of core technologies.•
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