Here we are, ten years into the Savas Labs journey and I’m gobsmacked. If you didn’t land here from our celebratory microsite, go check it out!
I try to remind myself daily to count my many blessings. Having had the opportunity to work alongside, and to serve the amazing people I have via Savas has been one of the greatest privileges of my life so far. I am very people and purpose oriented, so I tend to think in those lenses. Given that, there are some people I’d like to thank, and reflections I’d like to share.
Clearly attempting to do justice to thank all of those deserving of recognition over a decade is an exercise in futility. However, not making an attempt seems the worse of two imperfect options. Regardless, I carry endless gratitude to those who have supported and grown us along the way, mentioned by name or not.
Randy Fay: Going back to the pre-Savas days, I’ll start by giving a huge shoutout to Randy, a giant in the open source software engineering community, and more impressively to me, the founder of an amazing international touring cycling community called Warmshowers.org— a service that I used on several long-distance bike trips, including a cross-U.S. journey. Randy is a highly skilled engineer, but more than that, embodies incredible generosity—the quality I admire most. He was an inspiration on many fronts earlier in my career and was instrumental in helping build my client network early on after my first failed startup in Boston, which the pursuit of that startup was how I met Randy to begin with.