GreenView Data turns one-year project into big sales, and jobs
An old idea is still a good one and is still going strong, making money and jobs in Ann Arbor. GreenView Data’s Vedit editing program is still scoring sales and creating jobs, expecting to being on another person or two later this year.
Ted Green didn’t have high expectations for Vedit when he first created it in 1980. The then PhD student in computer science at the
“I thought that was a one-year project and I would go back to school,” Green says. “It turned out there was much more demand for it than I thought.”
That program, a universal text editor that can edit any file, led to the creation of GreenView Data and Green is its president. His company has now sold more than 150,000 copies of the Vedit software and has two employees working full-time. Green expects to add another employee or two within the next year.
Greenview has also resulted in spin-off start-ups like SpamStopsHere. That company, formed in 2002, is also growing fast and adding employees. But it was the unexpected and continued success of Vedit that enables Green to drive his company forward.
Source: Ted Green, president and founder of GreenView Data
Writer: Jon Zemke
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