After graduate school, Ben entered the workforce during the dot com crash of the early 2000’s. Work for new graduates was difficult to come by, but he survived building a consulting practice for a systems integrator where he led a small team building websites, databases, and business applications. After cutting his teeth managing both projects and customers, Ben started contracting on his own, building video editing tools for a small San Francisco-based company that specialized in video streaming services for government – Granicus. Ben became Granicus’ first employee when he was hired as chief software architect. His first project was building Granicus’ flagship product, Minutes Maker. Ben went on to build many more products for Granicus, including a voting system, a mobile video streaming appliance, a software deployment system, an app store for partners’ integrations, and many upgrades to Granicus’ video streaming servers to name a few. To this day, Granicus’ software is used by more governments to stream and archive public meetings than any other product on the market. In addition to his development and management responsibilities, Ben also grew a satellite office in Reno, NV. Over the course of his 12 year tenure, Granicus grew from 4 to over 100 employees, more than 1,200 customers, and the largest video archive of public meetings on the planet (over 1 Petabyte or approximately 120 years of video). In 2015, Granicus was acquired by K1 Capital and then by Vista Capital.