And especially Founders Ben Weinberger and Matt Berry!
Tivo announced today its $135mm acquisition of Digitalsmiths subject to customary closing conditions. This Tivo Press Release superbly describes the company today.
I remember my first in-person visit to the company in 2007. Ben, Matt, an admin/IT assistant and three computer vision engineers were working on fold-out tables in a Research Triangle windowless conference room. The company paid its modest bills with web development work while working on the big idea to transform TV with data. The path forward to the market was not clear. The team had to iterate and adjusts its plans several times. But all that work produced a digital media software company whose products reach 64% of US households as well as more internationally.
Digitalsmiths growth was propelled by software that worked and tremendous focus on signing and taking care of customers.
Easy to write but much harder to do. Today is another great milestone for Ben, Matt, and Digitalsmiths!