11 Facts About Tom Proulx

Tom Proulx was a co-founder and first programmer of Intuit and a pioneer of usability testing in the 1980s.

Tom Proulx was the main programmer of the first version of Quicken and the prime mover of its successful merger with TurboTax.

Tom Proulx co-founded Intuit in 1983, and was later involved with NetPulse.

Tom Proulx earned an electrical engineering degree from Stanford University and was a Hughes Fellow.

Tom Proulx wanted a programmer for a planned home bill payment and bank reconciliation program.

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Tom Proulx was the first and foremost programmer of the first version of Quicken and the first Apple and Radio Shack versions.

Tom Proulx obtained a patent for finding a way for a computer to verify that a user had correctly inserted blank checks in a dot matrix printer.

In 1985, while Tom Proulx was one of three Intuit employees, Intuit became the first company to shrink wrap floppy disks and manuals.

Tom Proulx was a recipient of the Inc Magazine Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1992.

Tom Proulx co-founded Netpulse, Inc In June 2000, Netpulse E-Zone Media Networks was formed out of E-Zone Networks, Netpulse Communications, and Xystos Media Networks in a merger.

Tom Proulx remains on the boards of eGym, and served on the boards of iControl, Plumchoice, and Dropwater.