Ben and Mena Trott
Ben Trott and Mena G. Trott (born September 1977) are the married co-founders of Six Apart, creators of Movable Type and TypePad. The company name comes from the fact that they were born six days apart.
Mena is president of Six Apart. She helps lead management and business efforts, and makes the company products aesthetically pleasing and functionally intuitive. She made her first efforts in weblogging at dollarshort.org in 2001.
Ben is chief technical officer of Six Apart. He is a regular contributor to CPAN (the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network), and has written for Perl.com and contributed to Essential Blogging.
Movable Type was originally developed by Ben during a period of unemployment to help Mena with her blog, but the commercial potential was shown by over 100 downloads during the first hour it was made public.
Both came under heavy criticism in 2004 after moves to charge users to use the popular Movable Type system.
External links
- About Six Apart
- Mena's Corner at Six Apart
- Not A Dollarshort Mena's current weblog
- dollarshort.org Mena's previous weblog
- The darlings of the blogosphere from CNN.com