Wow, amongst a flat-out, full-on week I’m poking my head up for a brief second to say;

“Hey, Pollenizer is two years old today!”

And I’m so proud. Proud of the team and crazy hard work they’ve put into building the more than dozens of great web businesses.They are fantastic and I can’t say enough to thank them for their volunteered creativity, energy and care.

Proud of the community to come together and even make a company like Pollenizer possible – really, we couldn’t have done it without you.

Very proud of Phil, my business partner, for riding this crazy rollercoaster of getting started, working it out, building the team, financial crises, clients being great, clients being awful, going to Europe, really growing Australia and still walking in each day with a smile and a big ball of energy. Plus, doing all of that while being high integrity and a rock-solid belief in what we are and what we do.

I’m also proud of myself. Pollenizer didn’t exist two years ago and now it does. And it was hard. Hard to do the work, hard to work it out, hard to really try and look after customers. Hard to run the business, grow the business, administrate the business. I say that I’m my own boss – I get to choose when I do my 80 hours a week.

I’m also proud of our failures. Failed systems. Failed ideas. Failed projects. People we thought would be fantastic but we didn’t fit each other. I’m certain most of my learnings have come from them so all I need to do is increase my failure rate and make sure I don’t make the same mistakes twice.

A special thank you to Karen, my wife, for putting up with me saying “Honey, I think this is going to be a big week at work” for about 93 out of 104 weeks.  I think she knows I love what I do and would be more painful any other way, but I still appreciate the support.

That thanks goes out to all the partners of the Pollenizer team who have put up with late night calls with Pollenizer India and Europe, long days, weekend work, and other assorted madness.

Another thanks to the companies, founders, and teams who gave us a chance to show what we could do. A company that preaches agile, says we can’t give you even an estimate, asks you to trust us and gives you lots of homework is not an easy proposition to buy in to. But, you did, and we did our darndest to do a fantastic job each time. We certainly couldn’t have done it without you and we’re so proud of what you’ve built with sweat, toil and care.

The next two years…. I’m so excited. We’re getting better and better, bigger and bigger, faster and faster. I’m loving it and can’t wait to see the things we build with you.

Thank you!