2000 was the year of the dotcom collapse, resulting in huge losses for legions of investors.
Chris started Wildbit as a web design shop serving clients mostly in Philadelphia.
After putting word out on a newsgroup (remember those?) Chris partnered with a developer in Romania, starting our foray into remote teams.
Facebook launched in 2004, though at the time it was only open to college students and was called “The Facebook”.
Launch of first product Newsberry — an email marketing service.
YouTube is founded and comes online February 15, 2005.
Wildbit publishes a report on design for Social Networks through its work on Philly2night.com, starting a speciality in building community sites.
Apple introduces the iPhone to the public at the January 9, 2007 Macworld Conference & Expo.
Client launch of Nuzizo.com, first full scale social network.
First Wildbit retreat in Cyprus.
Client launch of Podcast People, a SaaS product for self-publishing podcasts.
Product launch of Beanstalk.
The first phone with Google Android 1.0 was released on September 23, 2008.
Second company retreat in Turkey.
Client launch of MeetPips, a Forex trading community site.
Apple introduces the iPad on January 27, 2010.
Product launch of Postmark.
The first Chromebooks with Chrome OS begin shipping on June 15, 2011.
First official office in Philadelphia as well as first employee under the same roof.
Shut down our first product, Newsberry.
Google announces Google Glass on April 5, 2012.
Wildbit retreat in Palma de Mallorca.
Elon Musk announces “hyperloop” — a giant, pneumatic tube transport system.
Started a tradition of family portraits for 1 year anniversaries.
Launched our third product, dploy.io.
Coolest Cooler starts Kickstarter campaign, making it the most funded project ever.
Added the most new team members in a single year (6!).
During our retreat we defined our values for the first time as a team. Including a favorite, don’t be an asshole.
Microsoft launches Windows 10 in July.
We ditched our office and all worked remotely for a bit.
We moved into our new office after a 6 month build-out.
At the Philadelphia retreat, we defined success in each role at the company.
Rebranded dploy.io as DeployBot and launched Build Tools.
Company retreat in sunny Florida and Disney World.
Announced our fourth product, Conveyor.
Company retreat in Florida and Universal Orlando.
Wildbit started working 4-days work week.
DeployBot got a new home.
Company retreat in Texas.
Philadelphia Business Journal: Best Places to Work.
The first year of COVID-19.
Launched People-First Jobs.
Launched DMARC Digests.
We decided to find Conveyor a new home.
Wildbit turns 20 🎉
Announced location-agnostic pay.
Wildbit is in the news (a lot) about the 4-day workweek.
Published Accessible Palette and Postmark Express.
We close the year with 12 new team members.
We found Postmark and DMARC Digests a new home.
To be continued…
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