🎉 Today is a big day! 🎉
I am incredibly grateful to announce that today, July 10, 2024, marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of Facilitron. It's been an amazing journey, and I wanted to share a letter I wrote to our incredible team who made this milestone possible:
Team,
Today is a big day! I am grateful to announce that today, July 10, 2024 marks the 10th anniversary of the founding of Facilitron. Looking back on that day, we had only an idea, but we had people who believed in that idea and were dedicated to taking a risk and building something brand new from the ground up. We really had no idea how this idea, this approach to business, would blossom into such an incredible company with such an amazing impact on school districts and other public space operators and their communities. And all along the way, the deeper we got into it, the more we learned, the more it seemed that our idea and our growing company was built for the future.
There have been pivotal moments already in our 10 years – early on it was simply remaining committed to the service fee model when it was being questioned during our early meetings. Later, well after we thought we were on our way, we were faced with surviving a pandemic that slowed our revenue to a trickle. Particularly with that era in mind, getting to our 10th birthday has taken incredible courage. The achievement of surviving COVID is perhaps a perfect example of our dedication, our resiliency, our determination to be amazing and transformational. We all made huge sacrifices, essentially doubling down that our idea and business was meant for great things. When I talk to prospective investors, that's often what they are most amazed by!
Now as we begin to celebrate, we look at our achievements. Over 300 school districts, 12,000 campuses, 8 of the top 10 largest school districts in the country, 600 million events, the world's largest public spaces rental marketplace. We have amazing software, an amazing business, and the people that we have are even more amazing! Thank you to all of you for what we’ve accomplished together over the past ten years, and more importantly to what we’ll be accomplishing in the future, to make the most of the incredible opportunity that’s now in front of us!
Thank you again for all of your hard work and amazing dedication! Here's to 10 amazing years…..and to an incredible future!
Best,
Jeff
Thank you to everyone who has been part of this incredible journey. Here's to many more years of success and innovation!
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