Podium is teaming up with Utah restaurants—at no cost—to enable Text-to-Takeout.Patrons will be able to order, pay, and pickup—all via text.If you are in our neighborhood, check out the link below to see the ever-growing list of participating restaurants.
Today we broke ground for our second building at Podium HQ. Over the past four years we’ve gone from five to over 500 employees, and with this expansion our campus will have room for 1,600 employees.
#PodiumHQ2
Our vision has always been the same: to modernize the way business happens locally. This Series C round of funding means more resources to further that vision.
🙌🏼
@FastCompany
has included Podium as a part of their 2019 World’s Most Innovative Companies. We are honored that Podium made that cut. The 30k businesses using Podium have now interacted with one out of seven cell phone owners in the US creating over 35 million interactions.
We’re thrilled to make an encore appearance on the Deloitte Fast 500 and to be listed with some of the fastest-growing and most innovative companies out there.
#Fast500
Today we bolstered our financial and operations team with announcing the hire of our first Chief Financial Officer, Rick Hasselman as well as our EVP of Strategy and Business Operations Chance Olson. Read more about the big news here!
It’s not just a text—it’s how local business gets done. Need to stay in touch with customers? Press send. Want to connect remotely with leads? Press send. No-contact payments? Same story. Messaging tools take everything you do well and make it as easy as pressing send.
In 2018 Podium has facilitated over 34 million conversations between customers and over 27,000 local businesses. Today we celebrate our efforts by hitting yet another milepost with meeting our annual growth target. Thanks to our Podium family and customers. Happy Holidays!
In order to help as many businesses as possible get back to work safely, we're offering our basic messaging tools—Messaging, Webchat, and Payments—for FREE to every local business in the U.S.
If you’re a business owner, head to to get started.
“To any women who are considering going into tech, I’d say just go for it, just do it, don’t be afraid. As we are growing, I’m seeing the need for more diversity.” —Japa S., Engineer, Podium. Read more:
#InternationalWomensDay
#IWD2019
#PeopleOfPodium
We are excited to announce that residents and visitors can now TEXT THE CITY! Five of our numbers are now textable during business hours with
@PodiumHQ
Under the leadership of Eric Rea, 2018 proved to be a transformative year for Podium that resulted in becoming one of the fastest growing companies in the world. We’re honored to have
@UtahBusiness
recognize
@ericwilliamrea
as a 2019 CEO of the Year.
“It all started with my father’s tire shop in Canada... he ran a good tire shop… but he just didn’t have and there was no software to help him interact with his customers… we hired the right people and solved a problem that needed to be solved.”
@ericwilliamrea
#SSTS19
🇺🇸 We extend our greatest thanks to those in our military who serve, and to those who have served before them. We're lucky to have Randy (Air Force), Thayne (Marines), Weston (Marines) and Chase (Army) on our team. Today we honor them and all those who served. Happy
#VeteransDay
We set a Podium record today with 26 new hires. Welcome to the team * inhales deeply * Alex, Blake, Connor, Rio, Andrea, Alli, Karen, Huy, Damon, Nick, Nicole, Ferris, Ryan, Kyle, Ryan, Richie, Rex, Josh, Bob, Derek, Preston, Aiden, Jesse, Brock, and Cameron.
In an effort to raise awareness and support for Black-owned businesses in Utah, we’ve partnered with the Utah Black Chamber to create the Utah Black Pages website. Head to to see the full list of Utah Black-owned businesses that you can support.
More than 200 execs from American Business Awards spent 2 months going through over 3,800 nominations to find out what we already know: that Chris Nielson is really good at what he does. He was selected as one of two Gold Stevie winners for Customer Service Executive of the Year.
This year’s hack week theme was Tour de Hack. It’s just like Tour de France, but instead of cycling we made some software and nobody tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs.
While most of Utah is thawing from the snowstorm, we’re glad to welcome back our Founder’s Club recipients who spent the last week in Maui, Hawaii. The Founder’s Club is an award open to all members of the Podium family and determined by employee nominations and overall impact.
"While I tend to stay away from product news, Podium's decision to add payment technology to its service hit a number of themes that we’ve recently explored...and Podium is one of SaaS's fastest-growing companies."
#podiumpayments
Yesterday we hit a new milestone of reaching 500 employees. Despite our growth we still maintain our culture & values that was started from the attic of a bike shop. We thank our team & customers who’ve helped us to become one of North America’s fastest growing tech companies!
2018 was our fourth year in a row where we've beaten growth projections. Together, these yearly milestones have made us one of the fastest growing SaaS companies in history. Huge thanks to our customers and team in helping us to achieve our goal of modernizing local businesses.
“We’ve grown from 5 people in 2015 to over 500 today…by putting in a childcare facility that allows us to reach single parents, mothers, women, men, anybody who wants to work at Podium.” —
@ericwilliamrea
, CEO, Podium
Podium is proud to be a part of
@Wealthfront
Annual Career-Launching Companies list for the second year in a row. With insight from the top investors in the world,they identify the top tech companies in the world that hold the most promise for young people to start their careers.
It's here! Wealthfront's 8th annual Career Launching Companies List. Selecting the right company to work for early in your career can be one of the most important financial decisions you make. We're here to help.
Go to our latest tweet to learn more about Text-to-Takeout. This is a program that will help our local restaurants in a safe and secure way. Please sign up if you have a restaurant (it's free). If you are a person who eats, PLEASE make an order!
In less than three years, Podium has gone from a small team working out of the attic of a bike shop to welcoming our 400th team member today. We’re grateful for our talented people at Podium and excited to see the continued impact we make on local businesses.
“Always hire people that are smarter than you are…you have to let people create.”—John Warnock,
@Adobe
Founder. Earlier this year
@ericwilliamrea
interviewed John Warnock at the 2019
@siliconslopes
Tech Summit.
#SSTS2019
It all started with reviews. Now, Podium offers so much more—a complete Interaction Management platform for your business. Read more from Podium CEO
@ericwilliamrea
Happy Memorial Day! Thank you to brave men and women like Podium's own
@ChaseWR
and also Thayne Arbon who fight and sacrifice every day for our country and our freedom.
Let us catch you up to speed: Podium is currently the only company named in the top 1% of the Inc. 500's Fastest-Growing Companies in the past two years.
We were recently recognized by G2 as a Top 50 Marketing Product and a Top 100 Highest Satisfaction Product. As always, we thank our customers—the tens of thousands of local businesses who find success using Podium.
Honored to have legendary snowboarder Jeremy Jones speak at our town hall this morning. Jeremy shared his adventures of surviving an avalanche, spending 14 hr days honing his 🏂 craft in the UT wilderness, and writing a business plan to his dad at 18 to become a pro snowboarder.
🏆
@BatteryVentures
ranks the top cloud companies to work for based on employee satisfaction provided by
@Glassdoor
. We’re honored to be rated so highly by our team and for Podium to be rated as a 2019 Highest-Rated Private Cloud-Computing Companies to Work For.
#CloudCulture
Founder & CEO
@ericwilliamrea
shares stories about starting and growing Podium, including almost returning venture capital money after an influential entrepreneur told him he was going to fail.
"We started just 4 years ago and it started with my dad’s tire shop.” - Eric Rea, Podium CEO with
#Nasdaq
at the 2019 Silicon Slopes Tech Summit. Full interview: . Video Credit:
@Nasdaq
Join us on Tuesday, April 21 with our Chief Product Officer, Josh Penrod, to learn 7 Ways to Connect With Customers When You’re Not in Person.
Reserve your spot at the link below 👇
Welcome to the Podium family Tim, Tanner, Kyle, HaiDang, Jared, Caleb, Val, Maddy, Matthew, Clayton, John, Kaitlin, Bridget, and Corbin. We’re excited to have you join our mission in modernizing the way local businesses communicate. Have a great first day!
From 2 to 600 employees in 5 years flat. Welcome to the team Nick, Hannah, Holden, Paige, Colton, Cory, Marcus, Trevor, Jordan, Dave, Justin, Robbie, and Rigel.
When you hire the best people and put them on the best teams with the best tools, you get a world-class company on a mission to modernize the way business happens locally. Join us at
#NowHiring
There’s never been a more crucial time than now for one-to-one communication that doesn’t require you to be face-to-face with your customers. Here are 9 surprising ways you can use texting to keep money coming in, even if your customers aren’t:
As local businesses face unprecedented challenges and an uncertain future, we want to empower every local business to be as successful as possible. Podium will be offering a starter version of our messaging tools at no cost. To join the waitlist, visit
Our Senior Product Manager, Kelly May, will be sharing her expertise on running a product beta. Kelly has created two mobile apps and has five years of product management experience. The event is free to attend and will be held at Podium HQ on August 15.
Welcome to Podium Mike, Doug, Ben, Ryan, Alyssa, Tanner, James, Collin, Nick, Steven, and Hamani. Have a great first week, and we’re excited to have you join us in modernizing local business!
Drive more revenue with highly personalized text marketing campaigns!
We’re thrilled to introduce two Podium Campaigns innovations designed to increase the value of your text marketing efforts — Campaign Filters and Prebuilt Segments. 👇
“Being recruited as Podium’s first employee…it was literally me, Eric and Dennis in a spare bedroom in Eric’s apartment with just a whiteboard and all the ambition in the world.”—Arthur W., Software Architect, Podium. Read more:
#PeopleOfPodium
We’re honored to have Podium President, Adam Edmunds, listed as as a 2019 CXO of the Year Honoree by Utah Business Magazine. Adam joined Podium in 2016 and has been instrumental in our growth ever since. Congrats, Adam! Learn more:
Check out the packed house last night at the Utah Women in Sales workshop. Huge thanks to everyone who attended and the incredible speakers for making it such an inspiring night.
Introducing
#ShopTalk
, an educational series highlighting valuable tips, tactics, and advice to help businesses grow. To kick things off, let’s talk about texting. Everyone texts. And consumers want
#localbusinesses
to text them too.