About Us
About Us
Our Company, Gee Whiz Labs
proud developers of
KeepandShare.com
Our company is Gee Whiz Labs, Inc. and our main product is KeepandShare.com. We started coding KeepandShare in 2003 and it has been running continuously since 2004. Our passion is to bring people closer together using the Internet.
Our mission is for KeepandShare to support your busy life by making group information sharing easy, secure and instantaneous. Our staff bring over 200 years of Silicon Valley technical experience to this mission.
Our staff make every effort to deliver honest and fair service with a very high level of care for our users and their information. We strive to treat you just as we would want to be treated ourselves.
As of Summer 2011, we're thrilled to have over 1,700,000 users sign up for our service. We thank you for your support and for spreading the word.
Oh, and yes, the founders are brothers. We get along with each other, what can we say.
Gee Whiz, That's a Good Piece of Software!
Why is our company named 'Gee Whiz Labs'? Simply because we are dedicated to the proposition that each and every of our users should experience a 'Gee Whiz' moment after using KeepandShare: Gee Whiz, that's a good piece of software!
Robert Carr
Co-Founder, CEO
Robert Carr is co-founder and CEO of KeepandShare. Prior to co-founding KeepandShare, Robert was managing director at Sofinnova Ventures, where he invested and co-managed $550 million in early stage high tech venture capital funds. Before Sofinnova, Robert was vice president of the AutoCAD Market Group at Autodesk Inc., where he managed a major turn around of the company's flagship product, AutoCAD.
In 1987, Robert co-founded the high-profile mobile communications startup GO Corporation, where he led all software development including the ground-breaking PenPoint operating system. He is the co-inventor and holder of two patents on pen-based computing and object-oriented operating systems.
Regarding GO, Robert puts it this way:
"No, we did not invent the iPhone nor the iPad. In hindsight, we were early for the technology needed to build a mass market for handheld tablet computers with built-in cell phones."
"But what we did do was build shipping products around our vision of: handheld, flat LCD screen computers that are absolutely as thin and small as current hardware will allow; device sizes that ranged from "shirt pocket to steno pad to note pad sized"; no physical keyboard, alternative input methods including on screen keyboards that are touch sensitive; alternative input methods including on-screen gestures; a complete gesture language including flick to scroll and multi-touch gestures; all gestures supported by both operating system and all third party applications; instant on and off hardware; integral networking communications; optional integral cell phone communications; open market place of third party applications."
"No, I am not describing the iPhone or iPad, I am describing the GO PenPoint operating system in 1991-1993."
Prior to GO, Robert served as Ashton-Tate's chief scientist after they acquired his software startup in 1985, three years after Robert's invention of an integrated PC software program called Framework.
Robert is a two-time winner of PC Magazine's Technical Excellence Award for both Framework and PenPoint. In both cases, his products defeated the dominant industry players of the time (Lotus in integrated software when 1-2-3 was dominant; Microsoft in operating systems).
He began his career with "the birth of the PC" in and around Xerox PARC and Stanford University, and has been in the PC software business since he joined Xerox PARC in 1978. At Xerox PARC, Robert developed integrated applications software for the Alto (the precursor to the Xerox Star, which in turn was the inspiration for the Macintosh).
Robert holds B.S. and a M.S. degrees in Computer Engineering from Stanford University.
Richard Carr Co-Founder, CTO & VP Development
As the founder and CTO of KeepandShare, Richard designed and built the core KeepandShare share site technology, a particularly efficient and well-integrated notifications-based architecture for sharing group information. He currently spearheads all technology design and development for the company.
Prior to KeepandShare, Richard has played a key role in developing a wide variety of cutting edge software and internet products, as well as founding Carr Software and leading its development and marketing efforts.
Early in his career he spent several years developing games for the legendary early Atari 800 and Commodore 64 game computers, honing his skills in achieving tremendous easy-of-use and functionality with amazingly compact and efficient coding.
Richard holds a BS in Computer Science and a MBA, both from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Calif.
