Altium's Big Bet

摘要

Altium's decision to pack up its executive, R&D and marketing teams and move them lock, stock and barrel to Shanghai was such a stunner that, had it been announced April 1, would have been assumed by most to be a gag. After the usual chortling and anonymous catcalls die down, however, rational thought emerges and, finally, prevails and the decision starts to feel - dare I say it? - right. This move is hardly without precedent. Under founder and CEO Nick Martin, Altium (it was known then as Protel) itself relocated temporarily from Sydney to the Silicon Valley for about three years in the early 1990s. That move made sense for a startup ECAD company trying to establish its name.