March 2, 2007.
That was the day this all started. It feels like just yesterday that Travis (the original co-founder) and I walked into my boss’s office and handed over our 2 week notices, complete with smiles we couldn’t wipe off our faces. And to think we started it all out of a spare bedroom with roughly $500 in the company bank account. What a ride this has been.
There isn’t a book that teaches you exactly how to start a business, deal with the ups and downs, and reach for “success,” whatever that means. You just have to go for it. Running a business is scary, but like any risk in life, extremely exciting and often very rewarding. To be honest, we’ve faced issues that almost led us to closing our doors and moving on to new things, saying goodbye to the great risk that is entrepreneurialism. But something told us to keep going, to try harder, to deal with it and move forward. The decision to not give up has been one of the best decisions I’ve made in my life.
I don’t know what the future holds for us but that’s the exciting part. What I do know is that a handful of people have been influential in getting us to the place we are now and working with us to go even further. To my team, our clients, our friends, and our ever-curious family, we couldn’t have done it without you.
Thanks, a million times over.
