Laurent Ribardière founded the

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company 4D SAS and its US Subsidiary 4D Inc in 1984, when he began development of 4th Dimension (or 4D) which was code-named Silver Surfer at the time. 4D had its initial product release in 1987 with its own

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. Laurent is the original author of

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and founded the Wakanda SAS company.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ribardiere, Laurent 20th-century French businesspeople French computer programmers 1964 births Living people