Acquia
I co-founded Acquia in 2007 to help organizations build and run Drupal websites. Today, Acquia has over $350M in annual revenue, making it one of the largest Open Source companies in the world. These posts share what I've learned about building a business around Open Source. For Acquia's history, see my annual retrospectives.
2026
2025
2024
2023
- Acquia to acquire Monsido
- Acquia a leader in the 2023 Forrester Wave for Content Management Systems
- Acquia's vision and strategy: an integrated ecosystem of world-class products Featured
- The future of marketing technology: platforms plus point solutions
- KitKat gets a break with Drupal and Acquia
- $70,000 USD for Drupal innovation contest
- Mautic to become an independent Open Source project Featured
- Acquia a Leader in the 2023 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms
- Acquia retrospective 2022
2022
2021
2020
- Acquia switches from Marketo to Campaign Studio (aka Mautic)
- Acquia Engage Keynote 2020
- Three trends driving today's "Flash Digital Transformation"
- Mautic 3 released (and other important changes)
- Advertising for Drupal contributors
- Acquia a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms
- Acquia retrospective 2019
2019
- Acquia to acquire AgilOne to solve data challenges with AI
- Acquia to receive majority investment from Vista Equity Partners
- Acquia acquires Cohesion to simplify building Drupal sites
- Acquia a leader in 2019 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management
- Acquia's new India office
- Announcing a private beta of Acquia Content Cloud
- Web personalization made simple: announcing the all-new Acquia Lift
- Acquia delivers during Mueller report traffic surge Featured
- Acquia acquires Mautic to create the Open Digital Experience Platform
- Should Product Marketing report to Product or Marketing?
- Acquia sponsors NPR
- Acquia takes over a subway station
- 2019 Australian Open 'aces' the digital experience with Acquia and Drupal
- Acquia retrospective 2018
2018
- Relentlessly eliminating barriers to growth Featured
- Optimizing your product strategy for the short- and long-term
- It's the most 'Wonderfund' time of year
- Acquia highway billboards
- How NBC Sports supports the biggest media events online
- How Paychex replatformed on Drupal and doubled its website traffic
- How Wendy's sells fresh, never-frozen hamburgers online
- Acquia Engage 2018 keynote
- Acquia a leader in the 2018 Forrester Wave for Web Content Management Systems
- Acquia partners with BigCommerce
- The rise of headless commerce
- Acquia's new European headquarters
- Acquia recognized among Inc 5000 fastest growing companies
- Acquia a leader in 2018 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management
- Watching former colleagues take it to the next level
- Virtual reality on campus with Drupal
- My thoughts on Adobe buying Magento for $1.68 billion
- Mollom: The story of my first SaaS startup
- Acquia blocks 500,000 attack attempts for SA-CORE-2018-002
- Acquia to increase engineering capacity by 60% in 2018
- Cooking with Alexa and Drupal
- Building bikes for the Boys and Girls Club
- Acquia retrospective 2017
2017
- Evolving Acquia.com
- Acquia gives back this holiday season
- Massachusetts launches Mass.gov on Drupal
- Mike Sullivan joins Acquia as CEO
- Acquia Engage 2017 keynote
- Shopping with augmented reality
- The evolution of Acquia's product strategy
- Announcing Node.js on Acquia Cloud
- Don't blame open-source software for poor security practices
- Acquia a leader in 2017 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management
- The reason why Acquia supports Net Neutrality
- Acquia's first decade: the founding story Featured
- From imagination to (augmented) reality in 48 hours
- Acquia's next phase
- Friduction: the internet's unstoppable drive to eliminate friction
- Think beyond with Acquia Labs
- Distributions remain a growing opportunity for Drupal
- How Nasdaq offers a Drupal distribution as-a-service Featured
- Acquia a leader in the 2017 Forrester Wave for Web Content Management Systems
- Acquia retrospective 2016
2016
- Content and Commerce: a big opportunity for Drupal
- Nasdaq using Drupal 8 for new Investor Relations websites
- Personalization takes flight with the new Acquia Lift
- Acquia a leader in 2016 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management
- City of Boston launches Boston.gov on Drupal
- The long path to being understood
- Breakfast at Acquia
- A "MAP" for accelerating Drupal 8 adoption
- When traffic skyrockets your site shouldn't go down
- Acquia retrospective 2015
2015
- NY.gov on Drupal, one year later
- Acquia and Drupal helped save Cisco $400 million USD
- Announcing Acquia Content Hub
- WPP-Acquia Alliance: a milestone for Drupal
- Acquia raises $55 million series G
- How Acquia is addressing the explosion of sites
- Giving back and making money
- Acquia announces it is ready for Drupal 8
- One year later: the Acquia Certification Program
- Acquia retrospective 2014
2014
- Weather.com using Drupal
- Michael Skok
- Acquia a leader in 2014 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management
- Acquia honored by Belgian-American Chamber of Commerce
- Amazon invests in Acquia
- The business behind Open Source
- Acquia acquired TruCentric
- Acquia raises $50 million series F
- The investment case for employing a Drupal core contributor
- Acquia drops non-compete clauses
- Entrepreneurship is 80% sales and marketing
- Do well and do good Featured
- Acquia certification for Drupal
- Announcing Acquia Lift
- Acquia retrospective 2013
2013
- Announcing Acquia Cloud Free
- Three important start-up lessons I learned
- Announcing Acquia Cloud Site Factory
- Growth of Acquia Cloud
- The Red Press of Drupal
- Drupal and Red Nose Day
- New Mollom content moderation platform launched
- Acquia is hiring in Europe
- Radio France sponsors Spark Drupal 7 work
- Acquia retrospective 2012
- Spark update: unified in-place editing
2012
- Giant Lego Druplicon
- Using the Akiban database with Drupal
- Acquia raises $30 million series E
- Acquia hiring at BADCamp
- How does it feel to sell your company?
- Acquia fastest growing software company in US
- Mollom acquired by Acquia
- Spark update: in-line editing in Drupal
- Announcing Spark: authoring improvements for Drupal 7 and Drupal 8
- Announcing Acquia's Large Scale Drupal program
- Acquia retrospective 2011
2011
- Drupal + India = opportunity
- Acquia U
- Movember 2011
- Sitecore FUD
- PayPal developer community using Drupal
- Does Acquia suck up all the Drupal talent?
- Why Acquia acquired Cyrve and GVS
- Acquia raises $15 million series D
- Rebirthing Acquia.com
- Twitter using Drupal
- Party with Varnish
- Puerto Rico
- Announcing the Office of the CTO at Acquia
- Acquia goes to the Caribbean
- Hopes and beliefs for Open Source web projects
- My week in review: week #2
- My week in review: week #1
- Acquia Network 2.0
- How Al Jazeera successfully managed through the turmoil
- Introducing Acquia Dev Cloud
- World leaders using Drupal
- Tesla Motors using Drupal
- Wanted: more Drupal talent in Melbourne -- and elsewhere in the world
- Acquia product strategy and vision Featured
- Hanging with my Aussie Drupal friends: let's meet up
- U.S. House of Representatives using Drupal
- Acquia retrospective 2010
2010
- An improved Webform user interface for Drupal
- Building blocks of a scalable web crawler
- Playing with New Relic on Acquia Hosting
- Drupal benefits from venture capital Featured
- The right amount of venture capital to raise
- We raised a whopping $23,500 for Movember
- Stock options and employee equity Featured
- Is it mouthwash or hand soap?
- Movember 2010
- Acquia raises $8.5 million series C
- LAMP stack Halloween cake
- RestoreTheGulf.gov using Drupal in the cloud
- Acquia Hosting adds memcache support
- Teach.gov using Drupal
- Drupal 7: let's get it done
- 20,000 Drupal Gardens sites
- Drupal 7 code sprint at Acquia on August 17
- Capgemini promoting and using Drupal
- Drupal Gardens now in open beta
- Acquia Search: an update after one year
- 10,000 Drupal Gardens sites
- Moving to Boston for two years
- Extraordinary glimpse of Acquia Client Advisors in action
- On business models for Drupal distributions Featured
- Acquia Hosting: an update after 8 months of Drupal hosting
- DrupalCon San Francisco wrapup
- Acquia launches training program for Drupal
- Drupal Commons, meet Jive Software
- Enterprise social communities and Drupal
- Druplipet, a Drupal chia pet
- Eye grow Drupal
- Open Source in the Enterprise and in the Cloud
- Future of Open Source Survey 2010
- Help Acquia help Gartner with social software report
- Drupal Gardens launches in private beta
- NVidia using Drupal
- OpenSource.com launches on Drupal
- Acquia retrospective 2009
2009
- Open Government Directive and Drupal
- Growing by fostering the right culture
- Gartner puts Drupal in visionaries quadrant
- Robbie Williams using Drupal
- Speaking at MIT
- Climbing a mountain
- Free Acquia Hosting
- Acquia Hosting now available
- Drupal Gardens
- Social media revolution
- On Drupal certification programs
- Acquia adds 200 new customers in six months
- Acquia.com website refresh
- Acquia raises $8 million series B
- CIOs are starting to take notice of Drupal
- Acquia Search versus Drupal search
- Acquia Search: benefits for site administrators
- Acquia Search: benefits for visitors
- Acquia Search available commercially
- Drupal 7 usability code sprint in The Netherlands
- Drupal 7 testing: status update and next steps
- Drupal 7 usability: next steps
- Drupal 7 usability: status update
- Acquia featured in the Boston Globe
- WoodWing and Acquia: moving from print to the web
- Drupal.org redesign code sprints: update 3
- Drupal site crawler project
- Buzzr, Acquia Gardens and D7UX
- OSBC wrapup
- Microsoft promoting Drupal
- Acquia Search goes public beta
- Acquia Stack Installer (aka DAMP)
- Tom Erickson joined Acquia as CEO
- Drupal in the New York Times
- DrupalCon DC
- Drupal and Alfresco
- Acquia 2009 roadmap
- Drupal.org redesign code sprints: update 2
- Mark Boulton to help with Drupal 7
- Drupal.org redesign code sprints: update 1
- Drupal birthday cake
- Drupal.org redesign code sprints
- DrupalCamp Köln
- Acquia supports everything Drupal 6
- My predictions for 2009
2008
- Fields in core code sprint debrief
- A hosted search service for Drupal
- The freemium business model: giving away pays
- Lullabot podcast #65
- Acquia launch coverage
- Acquia out of beta
- Wanted: Drupal support engineer
- Typical work day
- Mollom in Jobat
- Wired interview
- Money versus time in Open Source
- My first months at Acquia
- Acquia is a Red Herring finalist
- BussinessWeek's Young Entrepreneurs of Tech
- Acquia launch party at Felt
- Great day for Drupal and Acquia
- CMSWire interview
- What a ride so far
2007
- First Acquia employees
- Acquia raises $7 million series A Featured
- Acquia, my Drupal startup Featured