Forty years. I’ll be honest, it’s more than a little hard to believe. Forty years has gone by blazingly quickly.
I’m deeply grateful for the clients who’ve trusted us with this work. The ones who took a chance in the early days, when the technology and systems were new and the outcomes weren’t guaranteed. And the ones who are still with us today, relying on systems we built together to run their businesses every single day. That kind of trust means everything.
When I started in 1986, most companies were still running on paper. A lot of them weren’t even looking for new systems. They were just trying to figure out how to make their businesses better.
What I quickly discovered is that the work is never about software. It was about helping people see what’s possible, and then making it real. Forty years of a singular focus: making people’s lives better every day.
None of this would have happened without clients who were willing to ask hard questions about how their business actually works, how to improve it, and then do something about the answers. That takes courage. I’ve been lucky to work with a lot of courageous people.
We’ve learned a tremendous amount along the way. Not from textbooks, but from the work itself. And those lessons have held up.
The technology has changed dramatically over these 40 years. The underlying truths haven’t.
Over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing both: how the technology has evolved, and the principles that have stayed true through all of it. I hope you’ll follow along.
Thanks for a wonderful 40 years!
Lenny Eiger, CEO, DataBright