Of course, you know Blackmagic Design. But did you know that Grant Petty, one of the two founders and CEO, writes the SQL code to run his 1,500-employee company economically all by himself? Keep on reading. Forbes is currently running a story on Grant Petty – which you can read in full here and while you are, you might think that he is a nerdy underdog (in a good way) who subverts the industry’s usual thought patterns and does things a bit differently. But said underdog is far from being one. On paper, he’s actually a billionaire now, and his 1,500-employee Blackmagic Design company has grown into a $576 million (revenue) business based in Melbourne, Australia. So how did he do that? Grant Petty @ NAB show. Image credit: Blackmagic Design Grant Petty – Building Blackmagic Design According to the Forbes article, Grant Petty is a self-made man, and surprisingly for a CEO, he is quoted as saying: “all of 2020 and half of 2021, I was working until 2 a.m. every day because I was writing the code that runs the company“. That, in a nutshell, is why Blackmagic is such a successful company. People see it as a weakness that I write the code myself.Grant Petty Petty is not exactly a fan of outsourcing. He writes the SQL code that connects the company’s databases, which span three factories in Australia, Singapore, and Indonesia. So what should they do when a pandemic hits? Hire an outside company to handle...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 13 April, 2022