We normally write about startups and small business on this blog but incredible growth stories are worth highlighting, too -- particularly ones in on our own South Florida back yard.
Citrix Systems, the subject of a Business Monday cover story today, may now be a South Florida tech company with 7,000 employeers, but the company that launched in 1989 still tries to maintain a startup culture in its modern Fort Lauderdale headquarters with Silicon Valley-esque touches like open office areas, conversation lounges with "writeable walls", conference areas adorned with modern art, and places to relieve stress.
(Photos above and below of Citrix headquarters in Fort Lauderdale are by Charles Trainor Jr. of the Miami Herald Staff)
While a workplace and corporate culture can help spur creativity and innovative thinking, it's the people that make a company. And inside the modern glass building -- as well as Citrix's research centers in Silicon Valley, India, England, China and many other places -- Citrix is all business, embracing and accellerating the mobile technology trend, completing six major acquisitions last year, adding 1,300 employees last year and posting record-high earnings.
Read the story about Citrix's corporate strategy here. And read a timeline of the company's ups and downs through its 22 year history here.
Do you work at a company with a startup culture? What works and what doesn't?
Below are some other photos provided by Citrix of their research centers around the world: Top row shows Santa Clara, Calif., office building; next photo shows the "pantry" in Hong Kong's Citrix facility, then a work "pod" in Cambridge, England, and at bottom is a collaborative work area in Singapore.
