Urchin Software Corporation

Urchin Software Corporation was a web analytics company based in Southern California. In April 2005, the company was purchased by Google.
History
Urchin was founded by Paul Muret and Scott Crosby in December 1995 in San Diego, California. In its original incarnation, the company was called Web Depot, and built/hosted websites for various mostly San Diego companies
Approximately 6 months after the acquisition, the Urchin On Demand (hosted) version of the product was renamed Google Analytics and re-launched on Google infrastructure, where it was offered for free. Due to strong demand, the service experienced overloading and new accounts were restricted for a number of months. After extensive re-engineering, the service was again opened to the public and continued to grow rapidly in popularity. According to a study reported by the New York Times, Google Analytics tracking code is present on over 80% of all domains worldwide, as of June 2009.
Principals and key personnel
Co-founders:
*Scott Crosby, President and VP of Sales. He was later Enterprise Business Development Manager at Google, and Senior Program Manager at Google. He is currently COO of Euclid Inc.
*Brett Crosby, VP of Business Development and Marketing. He is now a Director of Product Marketing at Google.
*Jack Ancone, Chief Financial Officer and VP of Corporate Development. He is now Principal, New Business Development at Google.
*Paul Muret, who wrote the first version of the Urchin software in 1997 and was Chief Executive Officer of the company. He is now a Director of Engineering for Google.
Other employees included:
*Paul Botto, Sales Team/Bus. Dev Lead. He was later head of analytics business development at Google, then the VP of Sales at Brickfish.
*Hui-Sok "Nathan" Moon, Engineering Lead. He is now a Software Engineer at Google.
*Rolf Schreiber, Chief Integration Engineer. He is now a Software Engineer at Google.
*Jason Senn, Partner Manager and Head of Channel Sales. He is now Enterprise Channel Development Manager, Analytics, at Google.
*Doug Silver, head of internal systems, most notably customer relationship management. He is now a Systems Administrator at Google.
*Jonathon Vance, co-Engineering Lead. He is now a Staff Software Engineer at Google.
*Mike Chipman, Senior Account Executive. He left Google in August 2005 to start Actual Metrics.
*Bill Rhodes, Software Engineer. He left Google in April 2008 to become Director of Development for Actual Metrics.
*Bartholomew Fromm, Systems Administrator. He is now a Manager in Site Reliability Engineering at Google.

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