Jonathan McDonagh
Founder
Jonathan started programming at his junior high school in 1973 on a Teletype timeshare computer. He then learned to program mini computers, the emerging technology at the time. The first computer on which he did any major programming was an IBM 5110 owned by his father's home-building business. The 5110 had a 4" screen, 64k of memory, two 8" floppy drives and a printer, all for the low cost of $23,000 in 1976. His dad was his first client: Jonathan wrote software for managing the building of single-family homes, and he has been programming ever since.
In 1987 Jonathan had just gone out on his own and started his own computer consulting business. He was talking to all his friends and someone mentioned he should talk to this little company in Eden Prairie called Rollerblade. He did and went on to work with them as they grew from 16 employees to 200 employees (1987 through 1991).