Together with Rich Andrew and Craig Mundie, the Alliant Computer System was founded in 1982, and its function is to build a parallel of super computers that use multiprocessing, in order to become the fastest Computer Processing Unit. The ACS became the next generation of computing and they finally appeared in public in 1986 with Tom Perkins as one of the board of directors. With the reason of disagreements and miscommunications, Rod Gruner decided to leave ACS and start a new company with modern-day needs.

As Shareholder.com’s first corporate customer, Campbell’s Soup dedicated its trust to Ron Gruner, who founded Shareholder.com. With his associates and friends who contributed to his startup, he successfully developed a site, even pharmaceutical companies assigned him to perform a project for them, because they wanted organization in their shares.