CTO and Business Owner of a Drupal Shop: What I would have done differently (5 years later)

Growth in companies is never easy, mine went through a steady growth over the last six years. Transitioning from 5 people in one office taking calls in hallways to 40+ people in multiple continents all over the world. We’re still using Drupal and Open Source, but almost everything else has changed. Let me share what I’ve learned along the way.

6 years ago I was working with 5 other people in a small office in Zurich Switzerland and built small Drupal sites for clients.
Today we are almost 40 people working in 3 locations on 3 continents, together speak more than 20 languages, working with 10+ tools generating make millions in revenue, and I barely produce any code anymore. The one thing that stuck: we still build everything with Drupal

Time to share my experience with you.

In this session I will look back to the last 5 years of serving as CTO and Business Owner of these locations. And will cover these topics:

• Which major decisions we are glad we made. 
• Which decision we regret in hindsight, and how we worked through those failures
• Why staying Open Source was important
• How we dealt with workforce scaling
• How we adjusted to 24hr workforce
• What has changed in day to day and what has changed in our company goals
• What caused growth, what led to losses

This session is interesting for you if:

• You are in the beginning stages of your business and are looking to learn what works, what doesn't
• You are planning to open another office in another location of the world or just growing into multiple teams