Mena Grabowski Trott
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Mena Grabowski Trott (born Mena Grabowski on September 16, 1977) is a co-founder of Six Apart, creator of Movable Type and TypePad. The company name originates from the fact that Trott and co-founder/husband Benjamin Trott were born six days apart.
Trott 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.
Movable Type was originally developed by the Mena Trott and Benjamin Trott during a period of unemployment in late 2001 for Mena's personal blogging use.
Trott was named one of the People of the Year by PC Magazine in 2004. [1]. That same year, she was named a member of the "TR 100," (now known as the TR35), an annual award given to leading technology advocates by Technology Review magazine. [2]
[edit] External links
- About Six Apart
- Mena's Corner -- Trott's Six Apart weblog
- dollarshort.org Trott's weblog
- Mena Trott's 18 min Talk at TED Conference (2006) Monterey, CA
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