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company. Kevin manages sales, marketing, and client services. And I manage production and financial operations. And what exactly does Hathway do? So, initially we started out just doing web development work for small businesses at the depths of the recession using open source software so that we could help them get to market. We’d say, “Better, faster, and cheaper.” And it was really just a hodgepodge of various businesses that we worked on, but we specialize with these open source platforms for content management and marketing sites. Over time, we have evolved to where we’re at now, which is specializing in eCommerce and loyalty for a couple of retail market segments, in particular large chain restaurants, and coffee shops, and convenience stores, and other chain retail brands. What about lately? How have things been? For us, we’ve always been a company that thrives through remote relationships. When we were first getting freelance clients, they would be from anywhere in the country. And we’ve had a number of international clients as well, and they were coming to us because of our expertise in particular software platforms. So, we always had to figure out: How do we actually work with these clients when we had never actually met most of them in person? And, on the staffing side, we hired some folks in SLO and the core of our operations for a long time has been local, but we were always using contractors throughout the US and abroad for various things. From your standpoint as a tech CEO, what’s it like to do business here on the Central Coast? Our headquarters is still in SLO, and it’s always going to be in SLO, but our clients and our teams are distributed; we’re actually in a really, fortunate place when COVID hit that we already had the equipment to go remote. We already had the software systems and collaboration tools in place to be able to work remotely, and our client relationships were almost completely remote anyway, so we were able to shift to a fully remote work culture, I would say, fairly seamlessly. There have definitely been some sticking points that we’ve had to work through and there’s certainly pros and cons to it, but we were pretty lucky for it to not be as big of a culture shock to us as I’m sure it was for other companies. As we have grown, we’ve recognized that most of our clients are not based here locally. We’ve also recognized that while the talent market is great in SLO— it’s picked up quite a bit over the years—it’s still very small. And, so, we built out an office in Dallas and we have an off-shore operation in Kiev [Ukraine]. And lately, since COVID, we’ve been really focused on just hiring remote staff throughout the country. So the nature of our employee base has shifted over the years. Most recently, over the >> 42 | SLO LIFE MAGAZINE | OCT/NOV 2020
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