It’s propelled the company down the sometimes twisty path it’s followed through its history, and shows every sign of being powerful enough to help take Evernote where O’Neill thinks it should go next. But his initial concept of a digital storehouse for all the information humans tend to forget-which grew only richer as he realized that other people wanted it, too-has had staying power. With 225 million registered users spanning nearly every country on Earth, Evernote has indeed come a long way since Pachikov created the app, mostly to please himself. But as the company commemorates its self-defined 10th birthday, it’s also re-embracing Pachikov as its founding visionary.

By the time it arrived on the iPhone, he’d already stepped down as CEO.

I knew that because I’d first written about EverNote (as it was originally known) in September 2004, after being impressed by a beta version at the DemoMobile conference in San Diego.īack then, Evernote was a piece of Windows software, and the company’s founder, Russian-American computer scientist Stepan Pachikov, was the guy who walked me through what it could do. A defining moment for sure, but not the origin story of the business. The company cheerfully concedes that what it’s calling its 10th anniversary is actually the 10th anniversary of the iPhone version of the note-taking app, which debuted in July 2008, on the day the App Store opened for business. If it feels like Evernote has been around for more than a decade. That road includes the first major evolution of the company’s brand in years, which the staffers get to see on this day in late June, well before its public rollout. Evernote has assembled to mark its 10th anniversary–“an opportunity for us to pause and reflect about how far we’ve come, but also to look at the road ahead,” he says. With cars and planes buzzing outside, he plunks his bottle of Hint water on the edge of the stage and proceeds to answer his own cheekily phrased question. Chris O’Neill, Evernote’s CEO, is addressing an audience made up of the company’s employees in a tent pitched on the roof of its parking garage just off Highway 101 in Redwood City, California.

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