Adelaide-based LeetGeek was No.1 in the 2013 CRN Fast50. The company grew an astonishing 299.33 percent in the 2012–13 financial year. We asked director Ben Corbett to take a trip back in time to the year of the company’s Fast50 success.
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“We first got an indication that we had done well, but we had no idea we would win. It was the first time we had entered anything like this.
“Being from South Australia, we arrived in Sydney amid this sea of people. We didn’t know anyone!
"We met some people, such as Jamie from eNerds, and we became good friends with Hugh Marquis at Network Neighborhood and the guys from Source Central in Melbourne. We also caught up with a few of the big disties we work with; putting some faces to names was really nice, as well. Being in South Australia, a lot of the people we deal with can be at the end of a phone.
“When we heard our name read out, we almost lost it. It was such a weird experience going from literally not knowing anyone in the room, to everyone coming up and saying, ‘Hey, well done. Congratulations’. It was amazing and so good for the team.”