GovWORKS.com
is the name of the company started up by Tom Herman and Kaleil Isaza Tuzman on
the movie “Startup.com” which is a documentary following the successes and
failures of the company. Kaleil is the
CEO of the company and does most of the raising of the funds needed to get the
company off the grounds. Tom handles the
Development side of creating the website to handle online transactions from
individuals to the government.
These two
have known each other since high school and decide to create a startup business
together. The company starts out with
only about 10 employees and expands to at one point having 233 employees. Their largest competitor is ezGov.com which
is another startup attempting to do the same thing as govWork.com is. EzGov.com is able to launch their site first,
but with the amount of funding Kaleil is able to acquisition allows them to
have a superior product upon their release.
Many
relationships are damages or even ended along the way. Kaleil goes through a few relationships along
the way and even Tom and Kaleil end up finding themselves at opposite ends on
how the company should be ran. This
leads Tom to say that he lost his trust in Kaleil which prompts Kaleil to fire
Tom. This is when the company reaches
its lowest point because at this same time the .com bubble bursts and the
company infrastructure becomes bloated and mass downsizing is required. In the end they are left with only 50 out of
the 233 employees they had at their highest point. I thought this was a great example of how
startups are started, maintained and brought down.
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