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FY17 Annual Report FISCAL 2017 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY Cover: Detail of the Felt & Tarrant Comptometer (ca. 1926−1939): Although machines with as many as 16 columns were listed in the company’s catalog, this 12-column version was apparently the largest ever built. (Photo © Mark Richards) This Page: Detail of the Google Crayon Graph drawn by some of the company’s fi rst engineers to track query growth. A VERY GOOD YEAR LETTER FROM THE CHAIRMAN I am happy to report that the fi scal year ending • We launched the Center for Software History, June 30, 2017, was a very good one for the Com- a major initiative for research into the evolution puter History Museum (chm). On an operational and future implications of software. The center basis we again were in the black, as we have been explores both the history and the impact of software for many years. Our revenue stream continues to by collecting artifacts, preserving code, recreating be a diversifi ed mix of ticketing, gift shop and running systems, and interviewing pioneers and café, venue rental, endowment draw, and, of course, participants. It uses all of this to understand the generous donations of our supporters. Contri- and call attention to the cultural transformation butions to the unrestricted annual fund were up 23 that software is producing. percent, which is the largest year-to-year increase ever. Thank you! • The Exponential Center, which we launched last Our balance sheet is strong, with over $63 year to capture the legacy and advance the future million in net assets. We rejoice in the fact that we of entrepreneurship, continues to expand. Projects own all three of our buildings, which isolates us have included an exhibit on the role of Fairchild from the wildly escalating cost of real estate in the Semiconductor as the root of Silicon Valley’s San Francisco Bay Area. This is all according to “family tree,” and an in-depth 360-degree view of plan; we practice fi scal conservatism because the the Apple iPhone, including its prehistory, inception, goal is to create a stable institution that will last launch, evolution, and impact. On the corporate for a very long time. So far, so good! front, an important new collaboration is the Google Good fi nancials are only a means to an end, Founders Collection, which contains artifacts, docu- however; what really matters is what we are doing ments, photographs, and video documenting the with those resources. The news there is just as good. fi rst 10 years of Google. Gathered from many of the Here is a quick rundown of some of our accom- earliest employees, this collection refl ects many of plishments in the last year. the pivotal moments in Google’s history. • We opened a major new 6,000-square-foot exhi- • To better accommodate our successful and growing bition devoted entirely to software, called Make education initiatives, we began construction of a Software: Change the World! It is very different new education center adjacent to the software ex- from anything we’ve ever done before: more interac- hibit. This multifunctional space will be used to host tive, more based on case studies than timelines, and classes, workshops, live events, formal presentations, with more coverage of societal impact in addition and research into the intersection of computing tech- to technology and history. It is designed for middle nology and learning. schoolers and up and features the Stata Family Soft- ware Lab for visitors to explore coding hands-on and learn what software really is. • We added to the strength of our team by having Finally, I want to express my appreciation to Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist John Markoff join John Hollar, our ceo for the last nine years, who as a historian. A longtime technology writer for the left at the end of the fi scal year to pursue other New York Times, Markoff conducts research and projects. John presided over amazing growth in writes about both historical and current topics in exhibits, programs, audience, facilities, supporters, computing, and has also expanded his role as an and revenue. He can be proud of what he, with excellent moderator of many of our live programs. the team, accomplished. We can do all of this because we have the support We are in a good position to attract a world-class of many wonderful groups of people: our trustees, replacement for John. While we are conducting the our staff, our volunteers, our fi nancial supporters, search, we are very grateful that longtime trustee and our visitors. We are motivated by our passion- Steve Smith is volunteering to serve as the extremely ate belief that the computer—the “amplifi er for the able interim ceo. mind”—is humankind’s most important invention, Thank you all for being part of this extraordinary and that we are the privileged generation with the journey. On to an even bigger and better future! responsibility to record how it has changed the world and what the future possibilities are. If you believe in that mission, join us! LEN SHUSTEK CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES 12,614 memberships 315 events in 365 days 197,000 annual visitors 834 oral histories 120,723 cataloged artifacts 6,824 annual media mentions 116,700 Facebook followers 5,949 annual audio tours taken 131.4M total money raised BY THE NUMBERS MAKE On Saturday, January Founders Supporters: 28, 2017, CHM opened Willian K. Bowes, Jr. Ralph and Leah SOFTWARE its major exhibition on Foundation Bernstein software: Make Software: Donna Dubinsky and Judy and Michael Bruner Change the World! Five Leonard Shustek years and $7 million dol- Peggy Burke and lars in the making, the Elaine and Eric Hahn Dennis Boyle exhibition is an unprec- Gardner C. Hendrie and Jacqueline edented “ode to code,” Karen Johansen Lincoln-Owyang as the Mountain View House Family Foundation John Mashey and Voice called it, exploring Angela Hey the transformational rela- Franklin “Pitch” and tionship of humanity and Catherine H. Johnson Alexander Polsky technology through seven Pam and Dick Kramlich software applications: Photoshop Gallery Architects Photoshop, MP3, MRI, Car Underwriter Crash Simulation, Wikipe- Yogen and Peggy Dalal dia, Texting, and World of Nan and Chuck Geschke Warcraft. Derry and Charlene Make Software Donors Kabcenell Visionary Contributors: John and Sheree Shoch Supporting Underwriter Mark and Debra Creators Leslie Bell Family Foundation Raymie Stata Bob and Ruth Anne Fraley Texting Gallery Dotty and Terry Hayes Underwriter Mayfi eld Fund Debby Meredith and Curtis Cole Gary and Eileen Patron Gallery Morgenthaler Underwriter Visitors to the 6,000-square- foot exhibition space can Donald R. Proctor Photoshop themselves in front Dave Rossetti and of the Golden Gate Bridge, Jan Avent diagnose patients with MRI scans, and learn more about Jon Rubinstein and Karen how programming works in Richardson the Stata Family Software Lab. Grant and Dorrit Saviers Mark and Mary Stevens, L. Curtis Widdoes, Jr. EXPONENTIAL CENTER@CHM “Silicon Valley is not a place. It’s a state of mind. It can be everywhere. It can uplift everyone. And, of course, that’s the idea of Exponential.” —John Doerr, Partner, Kleiner Perkins Cau- fi eld & Byers From signifi cant collection acquisitions, like the Google Founders Collection, to infl uential events, with speakers like entrepreneur Heidi Roizen, CloudFlare’s Michelle Zatlyn, and iPhone software lead Scott Forstall, the Exponential Center aims to inspire the next generation of innova- tors, entrepreneurs, and leaders. Since its public launch Exponential Center Events 11.16.16 04.19.17 6.20.17 in 2016, the Exponential CHM Live CHM Live CHM Live Center has been hard The Next Billion Venture Capital in the Blood: Putting Your Finger on It: 09.22.16 Three Generations of Creating the iPhone at work, capturing and Speaker Drapers in Silicon Valley preserving the legacy and CHM Live Julie Hanna PART I: Pioneers of the Possible: Executive Chair Speakers working to advance the Speakers Women Entrepreneurs on Kiva William H. Draper III future of entrepreneur- Hugo Fiennes Innovation and Impact Co-Chair ship and innovation in Moderator Former iPhone Hardware Speakers Draper Richard Kaplan Silicon Valley and around Marguerite Gong Hancock Manager Heidi Roizen the world. In the last Executive Director Tim Draper Apple Operating Partner Exponential Center, Founding Partner Nitin Ganatra fi scal year, Exponential Draper Fisher Jurvetson Computer History DJF and Draper Associates Former Director of has added signifi cant Museum Michelle Zatlyn Jesse Draper Engineering, iOS acquisitions to the Cofounder & Head of Founding Partner Applications Museum’s collection, User Experience 03.20.17 Halogen Ventures Apple including a major archive CloudFlare CHM Live Moderator Scott Herz from the founding days of Moderator Computing in Your Pocket: Marguerite Gong Hancock Former Senior Software Google; launched a new Marguerite Gong Hancock The Prehistory of the iPhone Executive Director Engineer exhibit about Fairchild Executive Director in Silicon Valley Exponential Center, Apple Exponential Center, Semiconductor’s role in Speakers Computer History Museum Computer History Museum Moderator the explosive entrepre- Steve Capps John Markoff neurial growth of Silicon Chief Innovator, 05.10.17 Former Technology & 10.26.16 PayNearMe Valley and the greater CHM Live Business Reporter Member of the Apple Newton Bay Area since the CHM Live Computing for the Whole New York Times Day of the Dead: Design Team Historian 1960s; and spearheaded World Postmortems of Silicon Donna Dubinsky Computer History Museum a Museum-wide project Speaker Valley Failures CEO & Cofounder that explores the story of Tony Fadell PART II: Speakers Numenta iPod and iPhone Inventor Speaker Apple’s iPhone, from its Justin Kan Cofounder & Former CEO Cofounder, Nest Scott Forstall prehistory, inception, and YC Partner, Justin.tv Handspring Moderator Original iphone Software launch, to its evolution Cofounder, Twitch.tv Marc Porat John Markoff Team Leader and impact.
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