Andy Florance was an undergraduate student at Princeton University in 1986 when he got access to a personal computer for the first time. These were the early days of new spreadsheet applications like Excel, which allowed users to organize and manipulate data and bring new meaning to numbers.
While computers were becoming more popular in the 1980s, the internet was not widely available. Real estate developers did not have access to real-time information about properties, such as leasable space in…
