--- title: "From Startup to Scaleup: Biggest change since you started?" description: Ten years is a long time for things, people, and organizations to change. image: https://blog.thoughtwire.com/hubfs/Blog%202019/TW%20TURNS%2010/%232.png --- [![ThoughtWire](https://blog.thoughtwire.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Asset-19/ThoughtWire.png?width=585&name=ThoughtWire.png "ThoughtWire")](https://www.thoughtwire.com/) - [Smart Hospitals](https://thoughtwire.com/smart-hospital-products/) - [Smart Buildings](https://thoughtwire.com/smart-building-products/) - [Technology](https://thoughtwire.com/technology/) - [About](https://thoughtwire.com/about/) - [Resources](https://www.thoughtwire.com/smart-built-environment-resource/) - [Smart Resources](https://www.thoughtwire.com/smart-built-environment-resource/) - [Blog](https://blog.thoughtwire.com) - [News Center](https://blog.thoughtwire.com/news) - [Request a Demo](https://info.thoughtwire.com/demo) #### OverView Our HighIQ Smart Healthcare solution helps optimize the day-to-day lives of doctors, nurses, and clinicians at work. 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By [Justin Robinson](https://blog.thoughtwire.com/author/justin-robinson)26, Aug 2019 [Ten years](https://blog.thoughtwire.com/thoughtwire-turns-10-looking-back-at-where-it-all-began) is a long time for things, people, and organizations to change.  Ten years ago [Twitter](https://twitter.com/ThoughtWire) was the big new thing, though the @POTUS account wasn’t around. Jersey Shore was first inflicted on the world (to the inexplicable joy of some of our employees) but we didn’t have World of Dance yet. Queen Elizabeth had yet to celebrate her “holy smokes, Diamond, really?” Jubilee and Harry had yet to meet Meghan. It was a time before our office was a constant symphony of construction noise, and a simpler time for memes. ![Copy of DSC_0002_FS](https://blog.thoughtwire.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Blog%202019/TW%20TURNS%2010/Copy%20of%20DSC_0002_FS.jpg?width=600&name=Copy%20of%20DSC_0002_FS.jpg) Continuing with our [blog series *From Startup to Scaleup*](https://blog.thoughtwire.com/how-did-you-come-to-start-at-thoughtwire) for ThoughtWire’s tenth-anniversary [#TWTURNS10](https://twitter.com/hashtag/TWTURNS10?src=hash), our veteran employees told us: ### **What would you say is the single biggest change since you started?** **Kiril, Software Engineer:** I've a feeling we're not a startup anymore, we're a scaleup now.  **Yang, Director of Customer Success:** I'd say the people, and by that what I mean is [the teams](https://www.thoughtwire.com/about/team/) have expanded and seen many different iterations. Some new team members have been joining us, some team members leave; each time, knowledge and experience is added to our overall team structure. When someone leaves, it's obviously a little sad because we spent so much time with them, but we wish them well. **Jose, Distinguished Engineer:** The size - we started with only a few people - and the scale of the work obviously. That's huge. For the first year or two, we had a handful of people that fit in a small room; there weren't too many layers of command. Moving to be a larger company with really large projects and all the things that come with that has been a very big change. **David, Senior Software Engineer:** Aside from moving out of Mike's kitchen? Probably the Humber project, because getting that project really changed the focus of the company and the business and where it was going. 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