Early Years and Family Background
During their travels from Germany to London and finally New York in the 1930s and 1940s, the Richheimer family anglicised their name to "Rich." In 1963, Jodee Rich's father, Steven, came to Australia to manage the local arm of the family business, Hunter Douglas. Rich wrote his first program in 1972, on punch cards at the age of 12. He was educated at Cranbrook School in Bellevue Hill, Sydney, with classmate Rodney Adler. During his Cranbrook days, Rich started his first entrepreneurial venture, a business renting fish tanks. In 1980 he developed a commodity analysis system on 64k Apple II, which was later sold to investment banks. He studied Accounting, Economics and Computer Science at University of Sydney, earning a BEc in 1981.
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