AutoDesk oral history panel
In this October 2020 oral history panel moderated by Charles (Chuck) House, four Autodesk founders, Dan Drake, David Kalish, Duff Kurland, and Greg Lutz, discuss the years before and after the founding of the Company. The four founders describe their education and early careers before coming together to help form Autodesk in the early 1980s. They were part of a team of 16 (or was it 17) founders, including the company’s thought leader and first CEO, John Walker. The panel describes how nearly all the founders came to work at ISD [Information Systems Design] in Silicon Valley, the circumstances that led them to leave ISD and form Autodesk, and the early development of AutoCAD. The discussions cover Autodesk’s first visit to Comdex in 1982 and the company growth that followed. The Autodesk founders also explain the company’s management style, various leadership changes, IPO, early legal challenges, and initial product development decisions.
Item Details
- Date
- 2020-10-15 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102792114
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- David Kalish (Interviewee)
Greg Lutz (Interviewee)
Dan Drake (Interviewee)
Duff Kurland (Interviewee)
Chuck House (Interviewer)
Cheryl Baltes (Editor)
Burt Grad (Interviewer) - Category
- Transcript
- Format
- Credit line
- Computer History Museum
- Extent
- 51 p.
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X9368.2021
- Subject
- UNIVAC, Autodesk, Comdex, AutoCAD, Personal Computing
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- Oral History collection