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My name's Matt Hamilton, I'm the Technical Director of Netsight
and I graduated from the University of Bristol Computer Science course
in 2000.
I'm Chris Green, I'm the Operations Director of Netsight,
I graduated from Computer Science in 1999.
Netsight's a web-development firm,
it's been going about 11 years,
we specialise, predominantly, in building
corporate intranets.
Intranets that people love to use.
The first website we developed was for a miniature donkey sanctuary
back in about 2000.
That was the first website that Chris had designed - we got you on specifically for that,
wasn't it? That was the first one.
That was 11 years ago. I still don't know how he got me to quit my job.
I handed my notice in to a very cross-looking man in a suit.
We've progressed from doing a small website for a miniature donkey sanctuary
up to, in 2003, we won a contract
with Warwickshire Police Force
to redevelop their website.
Then, in 2006,
we won a contract with Belron,
who are the holding company of the Autoglass and Carglass brands.
They're still a client of ours now.
CHRIS: We've grown to a company of 14 staff now,
all going well, we've been profitable every year
that we've been in existence.
MATT: Probably one of the best moments, of the past 11 years,
has been the Plone Conference
that we hosted last year.
Plone is an open-source content-management system.
It's developed by a community of people
and companies worldwide.
We had people from 30 different countries come here,
and Netsight organised and hosted it, it was really good.
We're still involved
with the university quite a bit -
both Chris and I are Fellows of the department
and I go back occasionally to lecture
now as part of the Professional Studies course,
the bit that got me interested in going out into the real world myself.
You take for granted that you're going to learn stuff,
that's why you're there.
The real benefit
is in the people you meet and the connections you make,
people who genuinely can change the course of your life.