Cliff Shaw
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Pearl Street Software, serial entrepreneur Cliff Shaw's company, built consumer genealogy products: GenCircles.com, a family-tree submission and search site, and Family Tree Legends, a family-tree software package. After MyHeritage acquired the company in 2007, both products were folded into MyHeritage's offering and Family Tree Legends' software and record collection were made free.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Shaw's first genealogy site
Cliff Shaw founded GenForum, a genealogy community site he committed to keeping free, before building Pearl Street Software's products.
- Acquired by MyHeritage
MyHeritage acquired Pearl Street Software, gaining GenCircles.com and Family Tree Legends. MyHeritage continued to run both products and made the Family Tree Legends software and its record collection free.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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