# John Walker (slim)

> John Walker is co-founder of Autodesk. Autodesk Platform Services on Anchor Terminal, with grades, an about and public profiles.

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Co-founder, Autodesk.

John Walker co-founded Autodesk in 1982 with Dan Drake and a group of programmers, and the company's first product was AutoCAD.

## What John builds

- [Autodesk Platform Services](https://www.anchorterminal.com/tools/autodesk-platform-services.md), graded E, 44.3/100, in CAD, engineering & fabrication. Autodesk Platform Services (APS, formerly Forge) is Autodesk's cloud API set. Its Automation API runs AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, 3ds Max and Fusion headlessly on design files, beside Model Derivative, Data Management, OSS and Webhooks APIs under OAuth 2.0. Co-founder, Autodesk, researched 2026-11-03.

## Works with

- [Andrew Anagnost](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/andrew-anagnost/), President and Chief Executive Officer, Autodesk
- [Dan Drake](https://www.anchorterminal.com/people/dan-drake/), Co-founder, Autodesk

## Questions

### Who is John Walker?

John Walker co-founded Autodesk in 1982 with Dan Drake and a group of programmers, and the company's first product was AutoCAD.

### What does Autodesk, Inc. make?

Anchor Terminal lists Autodesk Platform Services from Autodesk, Inc..

### How are John's tools graded?

Autodesk Platform Services is graded E, 44.3 out of 100, on Anchor Terminal's benchmark, which scores every listing against the same checklist.

## Sources

- https://aps.autodesk.com/en/support/get-help
- https://github.com/autodesk-platform-services/aps-sdk-openapi
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodesk
- https://www.autodesk.com/robots.txt

These are the people building the tools we list, named for their public role in the company or project behind a listing, from public pages, with the date it was researched.