Gerrit Brands | Web Developer | Drupal Specialist
Description: Product Manager in Brooklyn, NY
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After an incredible three years, eight months and 23 days with Acquia, I’m starting a new role next week as a Product Manager at SeatGeek . The SeatGeek apps and website make it easy to find and compare great deals on great seats for concerts, sporting events, Broadway and more. I’m extremely excited about joining SeatGeek but wanted first to take some time to reflect on my time with Acquia and Drupal.
I joined Acquia when we sold our five-person company, Growing Venture Solutions to Acquia in the summer of 2011. Despite the fanfare that sometimes accompanies acquisitions, selling GVS was not a primary goal for us. I suspect that if you’d asked us in 2009 about the prospect of GVS being acquired, we might have laughed off the idea. We were happy, our own bosses, funded entirely by work on a diverse and exciting range of clients including the Economist, Intel and a range of smaller organizations, and above
2011 was an inflection point for GVS. In our earlier years, we offered a broad range of consulting, software development and training services around the open source Drupal project. This approach worked well enough, keeping us busy with a steady stream of work from past client referrals and new customers who found us through our open source work. Eventually though, we began to narrow our focus to two main areas: software powering interactive conference and event websites, and security review services for Dr
Gerrit Brands | Web Developer | Drupal Specialist