From Locomatix to Twitter
Way back five years ago, just as the iPhone came out, Karthik Ramasamy ( @karthikz ) and I ( @pateljm ) started talking about building a combined real-time streaming and real-time analytical platform to power enterprise and consumer mobile services. We started a company called Locomatix to build such a platform. Sanjeev Kulkarni ( @sanjeevrk ), a founding member of the Google AdSense team, joined Locomatix soon after it was formed. Next came Chris Kellogg ( @cckellogg ), who joined in his last semester at the University of Michigan. Today, I’m very happy to announce that the Locomatix team is joining Twitter ! Special thanks to our families and friends for supporting us throughout this incredible journey. We simply wouldn't have made it without you! Sanjeev, Karthik and I all got our graduate degrees from the University of Wisconsin, so a big part of Locomatix was powered by UW grads. Go Badgers! We are working on converting Chris into a Badger fan -- its still work in (ve