Heroku Founding

Orion Henry, James Lindenbaum, and Adam Wiggins founded Heroku with the vision of creating a 'polyglot cloud application platform' that would simplify web application deployment, initially focusing on Ruby on Rails.

Significance

This marked the conceptual birth of a modern, developer-centric PaaS, proving that a higher level of abstraction than raw IaaS was both possible and desperately needed.