Shawn Anderson: From Bootstrapped to a Billion – Five BoS Talks That Changed My World

Shawn, with his twin brother Shane Corellian, founded PDQ in 2001. He’ll share the 2 decade evolution of PDQ from unfundable startup to small giant. He will highlight five BoS talks he heard as they struggled to reach milestone after milestone that led to transformational changes for the company. Today, PDQ has: over 45,000 customers; PE funding; a valuation over $1billion.

From understanding how customers really want to be treated, through rethinking how PDQ builds software, and more, you’ll learn how you can put new ideas to work in your company and build towards long term and sustainable success.  


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Shawn Anderson

Shawn Anderson

co-founder, CEO & board, PDQ.com

Shawn is co-founder of PDQ.com A SysAdmin at heart, he’s spent his career making life better for his peers by building excellent software for them. PDQ.com came into existence in 2001 after the founders spent their professional lives supporting IBM Tivoli Framework and Microsoft SCCM for very large organizations (10,000+ systems). They decided to take a different road and they created a systems management solution for the SMB market.

Bootstrapped by necessity, ( no one would fund them), PDQ grew slowly, then more rapidly before taking PE investment in 2021 where Shawn transitioned from CEO to his current role on the board. Shawn has attended every BoS Conference since we started.

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