Billions With Zero Knowledge

I want to congratulate my brother Hamnett, father Hammie and the entire team at Radialpoint who were just honored by Profit Magazine as the fastest growing company in Quebec (measured in 5 year revenue growth) and the 32 fastest in Canada. 

This is a great acknowledgement of a lot of hard work done by the entire team over there.  Radialpoints evolution from its beginings to its position today and the current success as one of Canada’s fastest growing technology firms is one a great Canadian success story.  Not many ventured backed companies succesfully navigated the late 90’s and early 2000’s and large provider of managed services to ISPs during the meltdown that network providers and the industry at large were in the midst of.

Early this week I was at a conference where Profit magazine columnist Rick Spence was doing a case study on what Quebec’s fastest growing companies do well.  He highlighted how Radialpoint has focused on it’s partners business success and has become a critical partner for its customers in helping them earn additional revenue and reduce customer churn.

I picked up a copy of the Profit Magazine that goes on stands next week from Rick and my brother Hamnett is interviewed in an article on serial entrepreneurs;

Most repeat CEOs are creatures of habit, getting into businesses in industries they know and understand. Take Hamnett Hill, co-founder and CEO of Montreal-based Radialpoint Inc. (No. 32). At 35, Hill has owned five businesses, all of them in the technology sector. To help pay the bills while at university in the early 1990s, Hill started a multimedia consulting firm that designed PowerPoint presentations for executives and corporate-training programs. At 21, he and his brother Austin launched an Internet provider in the early dot-com days of 1994, which grew to be the third-largest in Canada. When Hill realized how hard it would be to turn a profit — especially as big telcos entered the business — he sold the company to a firm that eventually became BCE Emergis. Hill then set his sights on the Next Big Thing on the Web: privacy. He and Austin started Zero-Knowledge Systems, an encryption company. When the tech bubble burst in 2001, Hill put the brakes on the privacy service, restructured the company and created Radialpoint, which provides managed Internet services for the world’s largest broadband ISPs.

Radialpoint is continuing a long time tradition of taking the entire company and friends of the company out to see a movie (Ocean’s 13) tomorrow, and they have invited our team at Akoha and Standout Jobs to join them.  

Thanks to everyone at Radialpoint for the invite - we are looking forward to it, and congratulations on another great year.

Radialpoint has a number of positions open and has a standout culture of it’s own.  If you are looking for a great company to join, check out the open positions they currently are hiring for.

On Fri 8 Jun 2007.