0 to 60 Employees in 3 Years

We've come together with others over fantastic ideas and folks have paid us well for them. Soon, our thoughts become a company which has grown and branched into more cool areas. Now, though, client needs are pressuring us to change, and employees want to know where the company is going and what's in it for them.

Welcome to the entrepreneurs club, especially for when our successes don't seem so bright anymore. In coming together as idea holders and developers turned business-person, we'll share our experiences as a pathway to scale, not grow, our organizations sustainably. I'll lead the sharing based on my failures and successes around six core strategies in helping get Axelerant to nearly 60 employees from zero in the past few years.

Michael Cannon is Peichi’s smiling man, Drusus’ Baba, an adventurous water-rat, Axelerant’s chief operating officer, cyclist, Peimic.com founder, photographer, poet, and world traveler. He started coding in 1984 and has since evolved to mentoring and strategic roles.

As part of his love to help others by sharing his experiences, he speaks about how organizational culture and technology choices can interrelate to solve a wide variety of business problems. When he isn’t doing that, you’ll find him photographing open source event around the globe for the evangelization of our Open Source communities.