Ask Jon: What has been the biggest challenge you've encountered over the years since starting Vivaldi?
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Dear Jon,
Starting with Opera's decision to shut down the My Opera community, you and 19 ex-Opera employees started the Vivaldi community to continue on the road abandoned by your former company.
And from the community to the launch of the Vivaldi browser, which carries on the spirit of Opera Presto.
Did you and the team know that you would eventually launch your own browser when you decided to start Vivaldi? Or was the idea for the browser project born later?
In these years since you started Vivaldi, did you encounter a big challenge that impressed you and can you share with us what that challenge was and how you tackled it?
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Dear @Poto,
We decided on making Vivaldi the browser from the beginning, but we also felt we needed to make a new home for those community members. As Vivaldi was made as a browser for our friends, we also wanted to provide a new home. Building the browser was a bigger task and as Opera was closing the community, we had to quickly get the community site up and running.
There is always a lot of challenges when building a company like Vivaldi. We, however, are fortunate to have your support.
Cheers,
Jon.