Michael Gellman started
SpireMedia in 1998 and developed websites for eBags and David Letterman's Worldwide Pants in the early days.
Gellman says 2012 was one of SpireMedia's best years to date. The company grew from 28 to 38 employees, and he thinks he will hire 10 to 14 more in 2013.
"We attribute our growth to agile development, user interface design and mobile development," he says. "Those are hot areas right now."
SpireMedia also has a partnership with AT&T and is at "the top of the food chain."
"They send us their very large corporate customers and we build them an app," Gellman says.
With customers ranging from rapper 50 Cent to the Corn Refiners Association, SpireMedia has nabbed numerous clients in both Texas and Utah, and counts Archstone Apartments, the USDA and Coors Distribution among its biggest accounts.
Another project-in-progress is an app for
Denver's Tavern Hospitality Group.
"That app is going to change the way drinkers around Colorado are going to drink," Gellman says.
After 14 years in LoDo, Gellman moved SpireMedia to a former soda-bottling plant in RiNo in 2012. The company bought the building and designed its new 12,000-square-foot office.
"We were there before it all blew up," says Gellman, who is now 40, of 14 years in LoDo. "Last year we said, 'it's time to get our own place.' We have been around forever in this industry. A lot of our competitors tried to expand into advertising and PR. We stuck with what we do best. We're not trying to be everything to all people."
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