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Thomas Proulx is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He was a co-founder and first programmer of Intuit and a pioneer of usability testing in the 1980s. [ 1 ] He was the main programmer of the first version of Quicken and TurboTax . [ 1 ]
In 2013, Proulx moved to Los Angeles, California where he landed a job in television production at ITV Studios. It is there where he learned the ropes of film and television production and began connecting with producers in the Hollywood entertainment industry.
Aug 5, 2024 · Thomas Proulx is a pioneer in the consumer software industry as co-founder of software giant Intuit and author of the company’s flagship personal finance product, Quicken, whose development began in Tom’s Stanford dorm room in 1983.
In a little over a decade, Proulx went from head programmer to vice president and chief technical officer of Intuit. He recalls his role in Intuit’s merger with Chipsoft, the tax software ...
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Proulx: I had friends at Edison who went. One friend in particular, who was actually my girlfriend at the time, who was a year older than me, went to Stanford. And that’s when I first started thinking about going to school. I actually went up to Stanford to visit her and <laughs> it was like, “Wow. This place is
Nov 20, 2019 · On July 29, cofounders Scott Cook and Tom Proulx and early CFO Eric Dunn, now CEO of Quicken, reunited at CHM to share insights into the principles and key decisions that keep Intuit at the leading edge of innovation.
Three months later, Tom Proulx came out of retirement and "traded his creditorship for the company’s remaining assets," announced on May 3 in San Francisco, and made the company solvent again. [3] By 2004, he had been a director on the boards of tech startups such as UpShot , Documagix , and NextSet.
