Forbes profiles JAMF Software
Today, Forbes has a nice profile on Eau Claire's own JAMF Software. Check it out:
“We were really a bootstrap organization. For the first five years, we didn’t hire people and we didn’t get paid,” says JAMF Software founder and co-CEO Zach Halmstad of the company he created in 2002 while at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire to help enterprise organizations, schools and governments better manage their fast proliferating array of Apple devices. Today the hard work and sacrifice is paying off. The innovative, Minneapolis, Minnesota-based JAMF is growing 50-70% year-over year and has over 300 employees around the world. It now has plans to build a gleaming new $12 million office in downtown Eau Claire that will serve as a development magnet for a city deeply in need of rejuvenation.
That "deeply" at the end stings a bit, but we can take it. Halmstad comments on the Confluence Project (he's for it), and the article closes thusly:
Creating a viable and vibrant downtown is all part of Zach’s and JAMF’s efforts to attract and retain world-class talent to the area. While the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire attracts a skilled and diverse talent pool, most leave to go to Minneapolis, New York, Colorado and Silicon Valley to pursue their career dreams. “You see it all the time and a lot of that is really cultural. While I really love the city that I’ve grown up in and have been given so many great opportunities by our community, I think we can be better. This is really about bettering our community. It’s very important for me to have a positive culture for our employees to live and work in. I also think that there’s a critical mass that we need to get to. It’s not just about JAMF, cultural opportunities are for everyone in our community,” concludes Halmstad.
