Greg Titus has been at Omni for 25 years — for almost the entire time that there’s been an Omni. Greg’s superpower is creating new things. Sure, everybody likes to think they’re good at creating new things, but Greg’s different: he’s actually good at creating new things.
Greg talks about the early days as one of the first people hired. He talks about the days when the money came from contracts, when the apps started out side projects.
Those side projects included OmniPlan, which he started working on because a resource scheduling algorithm sounded like a fun thing to write. Which tells you the important thing to know about Greg.
That, and this little bit of trivia: the city of Kent, Washington, just outside Seattle, originally known as Titusville, was named for one of Greg’s ancestors. In a boomtown where it seems like everybody came from somewhere else, Greg is one of the rare ones — Northwest by birth.
Some other people, places, and things mentioned:
- Snowzilla
- Craig Hockenberry
- Jason Snell
- 2008 podcast with Greg, Craig, Jason, and Brent
- Ten year challenge showing OmniFocus
- Eugene, Oregon
- OmniPlan
- OmniFocus for the Web
- Tim Wood
- Boeing
- NeXT
- Microsoft Cairo
- Taligent
- WebObjects
- William Morris Talent Agency
- McCaw Cellular
- Dot-com crash
- WebScript: Objective-C without the C
- OmniWeb
- OmniOutliner
- OmniGraffle
- OmniFocus