Coda

What began as a simple observation has blossomed into a revolutionary platform for creators and teams worldwide. The journey of Coda started with a fundamental question posed by its founders, Shishir Mehrotra and Alex DeNeui: in an era of ever-evolving applications, why have documents and spreadsheets, the bedrock of modern work, remained stagnant for over five decades? This question sparked an ambitious idea to create a new kind of document, one that seamlessly integrates the expressiveness of words, the power of data, and the collaborative spirit of teams. This vision was born from the founders' own experiences and complementary skills. Shishir, with his penchant for elaborate spreadsheets, and Alex, a proficient coder, first crossed paths at MIT. Their friendship and shared passion for solving complex problems eventually led them to work together at tech giants like Microsoft and Google, further honing their expertise.

It was this shared history and a deep-seated belief that everyone is a 'maker' that fueled the creation of Coda. They envisioned a tool that would empower individuals and teams to build solutions for their own unique challenges. The core concept was to provide a set of versatile building blocks – like interactive tables, buttons that trigger actions, and interconnected pages – that anyone could combine to create a document as powerful and dynamic as a standalone application. This approach was designed to make simple tasks effortless while rendering complex workflows achievable for everyone, not just engineers. After a period of intensive development, Coda emerged from its private beta in 2019, backed by leading venture capitalists. Since then, it has grown into an all-in-one work operating system, adopted by over 50,000 teams, including 80% of the Fortune 100. The platform's evolution is a testament to its founding mission: to be the blinking cursor of choice for the next billion makers, enabling them to collaboratively solve problems for themselves, their teams, and the world.