Mongoose founder and CEO David Marshall is among the few tech entrepreneurs in Buffalo who can say he’s been there before.
He previously co-founded and then sold LiquidMatrix and said that what he's learned is simple – you'll go as far as the team takes you.
“Our employees are very close to each other,” he told Business First in a recent feature on the company. “They come to work, they kill it and then they go home to their families.”
In 2015, he turned Mongoose from a small consultancy into a product-based software company.
Mongoose offers a specialized communications platform for the higher education industry. It has gone from one employee to 50 over the past six years, and Marshall said the pace of hiring is going to continue.
Just as it fights for national marketshare at colleges and universities, the company is competing for high-quality candidates that range from engineering to sales and customer service.
It's partly about a culture that breeds collaboration and innovation, Marshall said. It's partly about the physical space.
Mongoose operates a total of 12,500 square feet at two different locations in the village of Orchard Park. Business First photographer Joed Viera took a peek inside.
