Willow Tree Apps

CNET’s Rafe Needleman Features WillowTree in his “Startup Secrets”

Roger Casey

Apparently, being a mobile application development company in Charlottesville, VA isn’t quite as crazy as it sounds!  According to CNET’s Rafe Needleman, in fact, WillowTree is a great example of how big things can come from little places.

“Tobias Dengel is CEO of WillowTree Apps, a development company in Charlottesville, Va. About 30 people at WillowTree build apps for various clients, some of which you’ve heard of. His company is working on The Verge’s mobile app, for example. He also has his own new app, Likes!, which I’ll cover soon, separately.

Uncommonly for an app developer, Tobias doesn’t outsource or contract, and his developers work from the WillowTree office, not their homes. ‘We won’t hire anyone who doesn’t work here with us,’ he says.”

Read the entire article here and see for yourself!