Matt Heaton is CEO of http://www.bluehost.com. He has been business minded since his days as a college student. At that time he had three computer hardware stores, which grew to need nearly thirty employees. These stores would be the beginning of many business ventures for Matt Heaton.
Matt developed his own website statistics tracking software which was first known as freestats.com and later upgraded to be sitetracker.com. He used ad sales to help pay for the software development. Incidentally, back in the day when Altavista was one of the big players in search engines, they used his website statistics software.
Soon Matt got into the business of offering free hosting services. Wanting to stand ahead of the competition, he offered 50MB of space as the name of his company implied: 50megs.com. He was able to provide hosting by collocating with freeservers.com who was later taken over by about.com. It was interesting to note that 50megs.com was soon serving 50,000 accounts and was run by Matt, his brother and a developer. When about.com took over freeservers.com they soon offered to by 50megs.com. Matt Heaton was able to work for about.com but quickly realized this was not something he wanted to do because he had a creative mind and wanted to do things in a more creative way. His next project became ocatch.com with free and paid services geared toward more novice computer users.
Ocatch.com has had more than 3 million accounts sold over the years. Matt and his partners saw a huge potential in the hosting industry. Rather than expand ocatch.com, they decided to leave it as it was and to start a separate hosting company with even more features and applications available to customers. This would result in the start of bluehost.com. Matt and his partners have custom created most aspects of their hosting services. BlueHost never looked back as it became one of the largest web hosting providers around the industry!
Matt
Heaton is a successful
businessman but
he certainly doesn't
believe in all
work and no fun.
He has five kids
to keep him hopping.
Matt is a Utah
Jazz Fan (as you
will quickly learn
if you browse
his blog.
Matt Heaton has
a blog where he
talks about BlueHost
as well as himself
and his interests.
There are professional
posts on this
blog, as well
as personal posts.
In addition, he
has thoughtful
posts about getting
where you want
to be in life
and making big
decisions.
Mr. Heaton seems to
be a very creative
and insightful
man. Surely
in his years as
a businessman
he has learned
a great deal along
the way.
He has spotted
opportunities
and seized them
to the fullest.
Matt seems to
enjoy life very
much and doesn’t
mind joking around
on his own.
He appears to
be very personable
and enjoys connecting
with BlueHost
customers through
his blog and other
mediums.
It is highly likely
that he will see
much continued
success!
Matt
Heaton is a serial
entrepreneur who
co-founded ActiveRain
almost six years
ago with James
Hillyerd and Jonathan
Washburn. Within
the past five
years, Matt Heaton
filled numerous
roles at ActiveRain
that includes
working as the
President/CEO
when he oversaw
the conception,
growth, and launch
of the social
networking platform
of ActiveRain.
Amazingly
though, Matt Heaton
also functions
as the CEO of
Bluehost. This
man has started
to show strong
passion in business
since he was just
in college. During
that time, he
had three computer
hardware shops,
which necessitate
thirty employees
approximately.
And these shops
served as the
start of many
more business
ventures of Matt
Heaton.
After
sometime, Matt
Heaton was able
to develop his
own tracking software
of website statistics
known as freestat.com
that was improved
and was named
as sitetracker.com.
He smartly used
ad sales to shell
out an amount
for the software
development. Few
years later, Matt
Heaton recognized
the opportunity
in web hosting
that he entered
the hosting industry.
From this phase,
he founded a hosting
company together
with his partners.
And this was the
start of Bluehost.
Matt
Heaton along with
his partners has
custom made many
facets of their
hosting services.
Because of this,
Bluehost turned
out as one of
the largest provider
of web hosting
around the industry.
This time, Matt
Heaton also runs
a blog where he
tackles Bluehost.
He designed this
blog to feature
many professional
entries that can
be helpful to
many readers.
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