Employee Acquisition Stories: Molly Thompson

At Perseus, every acquisition introduces new opportunities for the people and businesses at the heart of the transition. This series spotlights those individuals and how they’ve grown, connected, and uncovered new possibilities within the Perseus and Constellation ecosystem. 

In this edition, Molly Thompson shares her experience at WinTech by reflecting on how the company maintained its unique culture while gaining expanded resources, networks, and opportunities following its acquisition. 

I’m Molly Thompson, I have been at WinTech for 11 years now, and I work on the software product called ProVal. Our founder, Howard Winklevoss was getting up there in age, and he wanted to make sure his baby was well taken care of. He looked to find the best option on where it should go after he is no longer going to be running it. I don’t know the details of that search, but what I do know is that they decided on Constellation as the absolute best alternative, because it’s not like private equity, where they sell you off every 2 to 3 years. They actually care about their businesses, and they keep them, and they give you the resources and opportunities to grow and to branch out into new areas. Because they own so many different companies, you have all these resources available and all this networking opportunity that you never had before.  

The culture at WinTech is unique; we are very lean. We only have 28 employees right now and we don’t have departments, we all wear multiple hats. Our support staff doesn’t take tickets… there’s no backlog. We just kind of do the work as it comes in, and we do it well. But we’re unique; that’s not the typical software company experience, and I am delighted to say that it hasn’t changed. We were able to maintain that culture and that identity and our clients certainly get different invoices from a different company on the letterhead, but they have the same day to day interactions that they did before, and they still feel like we have that level of service and relatability that we always had. 

The opportunities I’ve had since we got acquired by Constellation was, I’m now able to put my hand up for knowledge sharing events like hosting roundtables or being involved in the webcast or some of these events that we have, and we didn’t have that prior at WinTech. 

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