Kivo
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Kivo was a San Francisco startup that built a plugin for collaborative document editing and version control, described as Git for documents. Founded by Leo Anthias and Niluka Satharasinghe, it joined Y Combinator's Summer 2013 batch as a B2B company with a two-person team. The plugin let users share edits and store versions of files like PowerPoint decks without leaving their editing application.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded
Leo Anthias and Niluka Satharasinghe founded Kivo and joined Y Combinator's Summer 2013 batch with a two-person team.
- Product launch
Kivo launched its document collaboration plugin, starting with PowerPoint, applying Git-style version control to office documents.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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Overall assessment: Not completed
05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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