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Vol. II — No. 184Remarkable People · Exceptional CompaniesToday's Edition

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Harlan Crystal and the Quiet Code Behind 500 Million Downloads
Founder · Engineer · Executive

Harlan Crystal and the Quiet Code Behind 500 Million Downloads

He began above a pizza shop with one co-founder, one hit game and an infrastructure bet that let a tiny team behave like a much larger one. Seventeen years later, Harlan Crystal is still making, testing and revising.

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Legend
Kevin Gibbs
Founder · Engineer · Executive

Kevin Gibbs

Kevin Gibbs is co-founder and CEO of Terraton, a San Francisco climate-tech startup building a 'business-in-a-box' franchise model for biochar carbon removal. Before climate, he built two pieces of internet plumbing most people use without knowing his name: Google Suggest (search autocomplete) and Google App Engine. He went on to co-found Quip with Bret Taylor, sold it to Salesforce in 2016 for roughly $750M, and ran it to north of $100M ARR. Terraton raised an $11.5M seed in August 2025 led by Lowercarbon and Gigascale.

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