2007-01-07 20:07:30

Ten Years

With a person, it's pretty simple.  There usually isn't much ambiguity in specifying the birth date of a human being.  I was born on March 15^th, and that's the date I celebrate every year.  Nobody has ever tried to suggest that I should celebrate some other day.

With a company, it's a bit more complicated.  There are several dates we could choose for the purpose of annually marking the advancing age of our auspicious assembly:

• In 2004 we restructured the company from a C corporation to an LLC.
• In 2000, we changed the name to SourceGear.
• In summer of 1997, we incorporated.
• Around April of 1997, the company hired its first employee.

I suppose there are valid reasons for celebrating any of the above birthdays.  But the birthday I have always celebrated for SourceGear is today, January 7^th.  It was on this day in 1997, ten years ago, that I took possession of my first office space.  That's the day I consider this company to have been founded.