{"id":669,"date":"2013-02-20T11:58:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T15:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2013-02-20T11:58:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T15:58:10","slug":"google-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Google It !"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you haven’t been following the technology-specific news outlets for the past two weeks, it would have been easy to overlook the news that Google has acquired the company in Florida where I work: Channel Intelligence. \u00a0It’s quite a milestone.<\/p>\n

Channel Intelligence\u00a0was founded in late 1999, while the tech bubble was nearing the bursting point but was still growing. For me, it started back in December 2004 with a random call from the company’s HR department about my resume on Monster.com. \u00a0I was living in Maryland at the time, but within a week after that call I had done extensive interviews, and had an offer and a projected start date in January. \u00a0My wife and I packed up the house, and on January 4th, 2005, we arrived with our three kids in Florida. \u00a0Later, in 2007, I was also fortunate enough to have my wife join the company as a co-worker.<\/p>\n

Despite the hard work and dedication, it was Florida. \u00a0It turned into the best 8 years of my life.. so far. \u00a0I’ve had the opportunity to work with so many talented people here, who taught me quite a lot over the years. \u00a0Hopefully, I was able to teach them… um, something.<\/p>\n

Channel Intelligence defied a lot of odds against it, both real and perceived:<\/p>\n