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Perhaps I'm mistaken in my reading of the article but the quotes below set a tone for me of an organization that was succeeding where it shouldn't have instead
by chuckcode 11y ago
Perhaps I'm mistaken in my reading of the article but the quotes below set a tone for me of an organization that was succeeding where it shouldn't have instead of an organization with huge financial backing delivering products that it was supposed to.
The group they assembled wasn’t a Silicon Valley dream team, more like tech’s version of Bad News Bears: a minor league beat writer, a former state treasurer, and assorted AV nerds from around the league.
BAM began as the in-house IT department for the league’s 30 teams, a small handful of employees originally tasked with building websites for teams and clubs. But over the last 15 years, BAM has emerged as the most talented and reliable name in streaming video, a skill set suddenly in very high demand.
- scott_s 11y agoThat's talking about how they began, 15 years ago. I think the author was trying to get across that in the beginning, BAM was not a technical leader in their field. But as they faced large technical and infrastructure problems before other groups did, and they decided early on to keep development internal, they became a leader.