BigCommerce Founder Bios
A Tale of Two Innovators Who Started From Scratch
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Without any funding or debt, Interspire has grown into a multi-national corporation with collective revenues in the 8 figures. The company continues to grow, led by the two founder's obsessive focus on innovation and the simple idea of giving customers what they want at a price they can afford.
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Mitchell Harper Mitchell is the visionary behind BigCommerce's industry-leading innovation, incorporating feedback from thousands of merchants to continually improve the product using a rapid release schedule and agile development methodology. He also built and designed the BigCommerce website and maintains the BigCommerce blog through which he educates customers on industry best practices and shares strategies to grow their businesses. He also presides over all corporate communication, product positioning, marketing, customer strategy and public relations for the company and is in regular day-to-day communication with thousands of customers via the company's public ideas exchange and bug tracking tools. |
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Eddie Machaalani Eddie is a pioneer in the software industry and has successfully guided Interspire from a perpetually licensed software model to one of the leading SaaS providers in the world without venture capital or debt, acquiring over 45,000 customers along the way, including dozens of Fortune 500 companies and thousands of SMEs. When an opportunity was identified to position BigCommerce as the leading e-commerce SaaS offering in North America, Eddie moved from Sydney Australia to Austin Texas to setup Interspire's North America headquarters, which he did successfully in just 8 months. He continues to guide the company through aggressive quarters of growth with an impressive 300% increase in revenues from 2008 to 2009 and BigCommerce growth of over 5,000% since launch in August 2009. |