Yakabod Overview

Yakabod was founded in 2001 by a couple of technology pioneers tired of wasting billable hours on stuff that didn’t matter. In search of more meaningful work, they decided to shake up the atrophied world of enterprise software—specifically, the catchall category labeled “knowledge management.”

Scott Ryser and Scott Williamson figured there was no reason large-scale KM couldn’t be as intuitive...More»

Yakabod was founded in 2001 by a couple of technology pioneers tired of wasting billable hours on stuff that didn’t matter. In search of more meaningful work, they decided to shake up the atrophied world of enterprise software—specifically, the catchall category labeled “knowledge management.”

Scott Ryser and Scott Williamson figured there was no reason large-scale KM couldn’t be as intuitive as an iPhone, as secure as Fort Knox, and deployable in weeks instead of years. So they spent the next few years bringing their vision to life, with Scott W. holed up in a Virginia farmhouse writing code and Scott R. running operations from his spare bedroom.«Less