Join Facebook to connect with Brian Cruver and others you may know. "People feel they've joined a company that's actually making a difference in the world," she says. --all those typical startup things. "I'm just trying to build a great company as fast as we can," Cruver says. The company, whose software allows organizations to reach their teams during emergencies using multiple communication platforms (email, text, Slack, phone, and so on), has been doubling its staff, revenue, and customers annually, but the previous few weeks have been more demanding than ever. AlertMedia serves a variety of businesses and allows two-way communication. And when problems do arise, AlertMedia relies less on rote procedure and more on open conversation by empowered managers. But if you have a clear mission and your employees buy into it, they'll stick with you through thick and thin.
He figures there are 260,000 target companies in his market, and he's sold only 2,000 of them.
Everybody knows what's going on at all times." Brian Cruver was born in 1971. "It's a Friday afternoon in mid-March, in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, and Cruver's team of 130-some people is bustling around the office preparing to begin remote work the following Monday.
In 2009, Cruver co-founded a company called Xenex Disinfection Services, which makes a germ-zapping robot designed to reduce hospital-acquired infections that is now on the frontlines of the Covid-19 battle.
Before that were Giveline, a software firm that helps nonprofits raise money, and some other companies that he and a business partner, Morris Miller, invested in. After Enron's collapse, he wrote Anatomy of Greed, the first major non-fiction book to be written about the scandal. Every quarter, Cruver shares the entire deck he's prepared for the board of directors--every single number. "It sends a message that there's nothing to hide here," he says.
"We'll have people requesting a demo at 9 p.m. and saying they need to be up and running the next morning," she says. He is an actor and writer, known for The Crooked E: The Unshredded Truth About Enron(2003). "You had a city go into lockdown mode. "But I ended up writing a book [AlertMedia is one of the fruits of that decision. "AlertMedia founder Brian Cruver's motto: Don't start a business unless you have a mission to build it on. "They didn't all work out," Cruver says. "We were looking at a bunch of ventures, and normally you start by asking, 'What's your business plan? Brian Cruver was born in 1971.
"Everybody is stressed and strained, but we love it.
In her case, as requests for demos have flooded in, she's put her team on shifts so they can respond at all hours. "While all of AlertMedia's customers use the service in emergencies such as hurricanes or security threats, the system is focused on time-sensitive, day-to-day operational emergencies--supply chain outages, staffing shortages.Alex Vaccaro, AlertMedia's senior vice president of marketing, points to the firm's importance at moments like now as one of the keys to its strong culture. Miller recalls an early conversation when the two began scoping out investments. Cruver started his career at Enron, as a bankruptcy risk trader. Brian is an innovator.
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"The company's bonus plan, too, is built around openness: It's based entirely on company performance rather than individual. "I decided that every company I'd start would be the anti-Enron. Because you'll always have ups and downs on the numbers. This is one of our moments. "Everyone else went on to their next corporate job," Cruver says. The idea came to Cruver at the time of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. There was so much chaos, and most people couldn't find out what was actually going on. He is an actor and writer, known for "We're able to rally behind that mission and feel that we are truly helping people." The culture here is about transparency, openness, and collaboration.
"I learned lots of lessons.
"Miller, an investor and former co-chairman of the cloud-computing giant Rackspace, has been a mentor to Cruver and helped shape his leadership style.