Built by someone who sees what others cannot.
The press once called him the Internet Messiah.
Thirty years of seeing the limitation before anyone else, then building what should have existed.
At twenty-one, Joe ran one of the country's largest privately held internet providers: fifty data centers, the security, the routing, and the phone systems, run essentially alone. He built early voice over the internet and hosted phone, customer, and communication systems billed by usage years before the industry had a name for it. The press called him the Internet Messiah. It was the thinking behind today's technology, two decades early.
After reinventing communications, and after changing how a Fortune 5 company operates, he kept asking the same question: are we solving the problem, or just redefining what it should be? Ava is his answer. The values have not changed in thirty years: customer obsession, relentless efficiency, and leadership that takes responsibility for the outcome.