Richard Rabins
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Okay, so in a nutshell, we're really very focused on the mobile business market.
I can broaden that, mobile and web development.
But in particular, if you think about enterprises or corporations, 60% of workers worldwide work standing up.
not at desks.
And these are people in field service.
They could be nurses.
It could be restaurant workers, manufacturing, quality control, workers who work for cities and towns, et cetera.
And until recently, the whole computing wave that started with mainframes all the way up to the web didn't really impact them.
They still kept using...
Notepads and forms primarily to record the work that they had done.
And obviously, the cell phones had come up roughly 10 years ago and had a huge impact on consumers, but hadn't really penetrated a significant way into business.
Correct.
Well, we actually had built the original Alpha up to a pretty sizable company in the late 90s.
We sold the company.
We were roughly about 25 million, we had about 150 people, we sold it to a public company.
And then I ended up actually becoming CEO of the company that we sold it to.
And then after a number of years, as we saw the emergence of mobile,
We actually bought the core business back from the public company.
And so we could really focus on what was happening in Melbourne.
Well, it's actually pretty straightforward.