Brian Forth

Last week we had the pleasure of having a quest speaker by the name of Brian Forth who is responsible for creating a company by the name of SiteCrafting. One of the most impressive things I took away from Brian's talk with our class was how he started from humble beginnings as school teacher doing all of this website development work on the side to now owning a company that is based here in Tacoma. It was also interesting to hear the "wearing multiple hats" analogy put into practice when Brain talked about how he used to be in charge of everything until he realized that he needs to start hiring more people to do those things for him. The main examples he spoke of when referring to this were HR, accounting, and sales which are very important positions so it makes sense that he waited awhile before delegating them to others. Another part of his discussion that I found intriguing was how he views his company now as opposed to in its early stages where he was doing it on the side. I think it is a cool perspective to have in terms of entrepreneurship because he definitely took a major risk by starting this company, but the end result was definitely worth it.