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Date: December 13, 2014 11:28PM
Stumbling Wrote:
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> From Wiki...
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> Vivint, Inc. (formerly known as APX Alarm Security
> Solutions Inc.) is a private home security, home
> automation and energy management services provider
> in the United States, Canada and New
> Zealand.[1][2][3] Keith Nelleson and Todd Pedersen
> co-founded the company in 1999.[4][5] Pedersen is
> Vivint's CEO.[4][6]
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> In 2012, The Blackstone Group acquired
> Vivint.[6][7] As of June 2014, Vivint had
> approximately 7,000 employees serving 800,000
> customers.[8]
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> In 1992, Todd Pedersen was passed over for what he
> considered the perfect summer job: selling
> pest-control services door-to-door in Sacramento,
> Calif. Some of his college buddies had pulled in
> $10,000 doing it the previous summer, while
> Pedersen was making about half that much hanging
> sheetrock. Pedersen, then a 23-year-old Brigham
> Young University student who had spent countless
> afternoons knocking on strangers’ doors as a
> missionary for the Mormon Church, ended up earning
> $82,000 working for a rival pest business that
> summer. “ didn’t think I had what it took to
> do it, which is odd because I’m from Idaho and
> Idahoans can do anything,” he says.
>
> The Idahoan has been fighting unwelcome creatures
> for more than a decade, frustrating human
> intruders with a home security outfit he
> co-founded in 1999 in Provo, Utah. Now Pedersen is
> embarking on a push to diversify the
> 5,000-employee company, which had $245 million in
> revenue last year. To do so, he’s combining
> aggressive sales techniques with digital
> technology to automate the home, pushing
> homeowners to embrace a simple way to control
> everything from appliances to locks via a
> smartphone. In February, Pedersen rebranded the
> company, renaming it Vivint for “intelligent
> living.” Sam Lucero, a networking technology
> analyst for ABI Research, calls Vivint “a
> leading edge company in the sense that they have
> moved very quickly. They are an early adopter of
> these kinds of technologies and an early mover
> into this space.”
>
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-20/to-sell-h> ome-automation-vivint-needs-some-aggressiveness-.h
> tml
Oh geez. I grew up with todd and know his family well. His dad was our bishop for many years