Guest Speaker - Brain Forth

Last Thursday we had Mr. Brain Forth, a CEO from SiteCrafting, as our guest speaker. My first impression is he has been with a same company for nearly two decades. 

Mr. Forth has told us his story about that he has graduated as a philosophy from a Gonzaga University. Then, he was hired as a contractor by Teacher Universe to build the learning management system. He had a chance to move to San Francisco, but because of the high cost of houses and a snake in a house he had visited, he finally decided to move to Tacoma and started SiteCrafting.

About SiteCrafting, it is a technology company that building and maintaining websites for businesses. The company is located in Tacoma and has 35 people hired. The SiteCrafting is working using PHP platform and has focused on varying fields such as Metro Park, health systems, transactions, mobile applications, and so on. It has also worked as many big corporations such as Dreamworks, Warner Bros, Disney and Sony.

He also shared that everything has happened when he was a kid brought him to a position today, such as he wants to take care of his clients to make them feel being taken cared. His first two employees still stay at SiteCrafting regardless receiving offers from big companies such as Google. His opinion after 18 years working at SiteCrafting is the business is “different every week, the only thing permanent is change”.

Lastly, he also founded the company named Gearbox, a company operated by few UW students, Gearbox is a company focusing on research to improve the software such as testing user interaction within prototyping. He said that he want to keep this company separated from SiteCrafting for several reasons, including it will be easier to sale if needed.