1. We started in a garage. No, really. It was Ben’s garage converted over a weekend and a thousand bucks. See the pic at the bottom of the home page called, “Contact Us”. That was where the garage door was. #goodtimes
2. The co-founders met, literally, on Twitter. The first conversation, beyond DM’s was … instant messaging. The first “real” conversation was … at a tweet up.
3. Three possible company names and six minutes of discussion. First corporate decision: No meetings, ever (thank you 37signals). Second corporate decision: “BigBadCollab”.
4. The name of the company has our favorite core value in it, “Collab”…short for “Collaboration”. The full company name is “Big” as in “Our vision, our pursuit, our calling”; “Bad” as in “The Michael Jackson definition…before he died”; and, “Collab” as in “collaboration”.
5. Between the two co-founders, there are thirty plus years of marriage, four kids (18 to 2), three dogs, and nearly twenty-five years of experience across nearly one-thousand web projects.
6. Ben has his degree in Anthropology. Mark has his degree in Economics and Finance.
7. Over 90% of BigBadCollab’s business is run completely, on the Internet. Code repository, accounting, project management, communications….its all out there.
8. The official sport of BigBadCollab is disc golf (below).
9. Culture is very important to BigBadCollab. Its a fabric and reflection of what we believe, how we behave, why we do what we do.
10. If it were not for God’s grace, we would all be completely lost.
