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Hungarian presentation software, Prezi

Many people don’t know, but the popular presentation software Prezi is Hungarian. With it it's never been easier
to present an idea and Prezi provides an innovative way of presenting information, making it easier to both
explain ideas and understand them.

Prezi came to life in 2009 and has three Hungarian
founders. It was Ádám Somlai-Fischer who had the
initial idea; he was a media artist who wasn't happy
with the existing slide presentation tools. He created
his own code for a program that could zoom in and
out and explain ideas in a more exciting way. Then
Péter Halácsy, who was a professor at the Budapest
University of Technology and Economics, together
with Peter Arvai joined Ádám in creating a product
that was easy for non-coders to use as well.
The founders

Worldwide Prezi now has 50 million users and more than 160 million public Prezis have been created. It's
working hard to overcome challenges and keep improving its product to make it more useful, user-friendly and
of course popular! Prezi uses the freemium model, so users can have the basic product for free but can upgrade
to more features at a price.

Prezi employes 250 people
worldwide with 170 in the
Budapest office and the rest in
San Francisco's Silicon Valley
office. The Budapest office is
filled with locals and expats
who fit Prezi's work culture of
creativity and innovation. There
are no set ways to complete
tasks: if there's a better or
different ways to get the
required result then the
engineers are given free reign to
work in their own way.
Prezi has many charity and
goodwill projects including
Bridge Budapest where,
together with NNG, Ustream
and LogMeIn, Prezi provides The office in Budapest
one month fellowships to
university students.

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