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It's fair to say that baby boomers Steve Kusmer and Kevin Wallace have spent some time together. The founders of San Francisco-based app development firm Abvio met while working at Hewlett-Packard in 1983--their first jobs out of college.

Later the pair worked together again at web development software company Macromedia. When, in 1998, Kusmer co-founded Atomz, a search engine for websites, he quickly brought Wallace onboard. Not long after Kusmer sold the company in 2005, they got the itch to start something new.

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