Recently, Ron Moravek was interviewed by Curt Cherewayko from Business in Vancouver - published on August 19, 2008:
Video game company co-founders take career leap into Internet space
Duo’s Sitemasher wants to move web development from server room to boardroom
Two Relic Entertainment founders have left the video game industry to venture into the entirely different world of website optimization.
Ron Moravek and Curtis Terry, who left Relic after it was acquired by THQ Inc. (Nasdaq:THQI) in 2005, formed Sitemasher Corporation, last November.
With a staff now of 26 at its Vancouver headquarters, Sitemasher is launching a commercial version of its website optimization software this fall, following a year of development and pilot projects.
It hopes to make website development code obsolete in much the same way that Windows made consumer need for the MS-DOS command prompt obsolete after its release.
Although most progressive companies have at least a rudimentary website, Moravek said not every company knows the programming language that operates its site.
“Businesses are moving their whole world online,” said Moravek.
“Whoever can take the voodoo out of websites and enables businesses to go online more easily... could be really successful.”
CTO Phil Calvin is the chief architect behind Sitemasher’s technology. He’s best known as the founder of Motivus Software, a remote access marketplace company that Citrix Systems acquired in 2004.
Read the full story on BIV's interactive site here.