Congratulations! Exciting times
ALex On 20 September 2014 19:38, Ton Gerner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jeremy, > > Congratulations. > Sounds good. > > Cheers, > > Ton > > > On Saturday, September 20, 2014 3:21:43 PM UTC+2, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> >> I'm very pleased to announce some news about my quest to find a way to >> support myself while working on the development of TiddlyWiki into the >> future. >> >> For just over a year I've been Chief Technology Officer of CTRLio, a >> London-based startup that has been operating in "stealth mode". It is >> thanks to CTRLio that I have been able to continue work on TiddlyWiki. >> >> CTRLio is a venture capital backed company. That means that we have >> secured preliminary investment from a group of angels, and plan to raise >> further rounds of funding as we develop the company. I am working with two >> experienced co-founders, Laurence John and Dominic Strowbridge. Our tech >> team includes Jon Lister, one of my original Osmosoft team at BT. >> >> In concrete terms, CTRLio is setting out to build a chain of tools that >> anyone can use to collect and manage their personal data, and to safely >> share information drawn from it with other individuals and companies to >> help them get more out of life. Using TiddlyWiki as the roots of that >> toolchain means that we're not locking our users into a proprietary >> platform. >> >> I'll post separately in the next few days about our initial product >> offering - it's something that I hope will be of interest to many >> TiddlyWiki users. >> >> People may have an understandable fear that the involvement of a >> VC-backed startup might somehow taint TiddlyWiki. An important point is >> that CTRLio is absolutely not an attempt to "monetise" TiddlyWiki or its >> users. CTRLio's offering to people rests on top of TiddlyWiki, but extends >> off into new directions. More to the point, for CTRLio's business to work, >> TiddlyWiki needs to continue to be what it is today: an open source, >> community-driven product that respects its users by giving them an >> unprecedented degree of independence and control. >> >> The "intellectual property" of TiddlyWiki is still owned by UnaMesa, a >> charity dedicated to improving healthcare, education, and social services >> through innovations in technology and tools for sharing knowledge. >> >> I emphasise these points about the protection of TiddlyWiki because they >> are important to me personally. I've been lucky enough in my career to work >> for and with many different types of organisation: the BBC, an investment >> bank, several startups, and most recently the acquisition by BT. Through >> all those experiences I've learned what's important to me, and as I've got >> older I have felt more and more compelled to try to live up to my clumsy >> natural idealism. >> >> So, a crucial ingredient in setting up CTRLio was finding co-founders who >> had the same enthusiasm for building a business that wasn't afraid to >> explore alternatives to the traditional startup model. >> >> Better than that, we've also been able to find investors who share that >> vision. I'm delighted that one of our leading investors is the musician and >> entrepreneur Peter Gabriel, who many of us will remember from his days in >> Genesis and subsequent solo career. Peter has been an active investor in >> technology companies for many years. I was particularly pleased that >> Peter's first concern was to make sure that we regard our users ownership >> of their own data as sacred and are determined to put them first and look >> after them rather than being the kind of company that would sell them out >> to the highest bidder. >> >> Anyhow, this isn't the place for me to try to wax lyrical about CTRLio's >> business. You can find out more on our website at http://ctrlio.com. Of >> course, feel free to ask any questions here. I'm very happy to answer >> anything I can. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy >> >> >> -- >> Jeremy Ruston >> mailto:[email protected] >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
