I never got the memo I wasn't supposed to be an engineer – Elissa Murphy, CTO, GoDaddy – video

Not every little girl grows up next to NASA, starts coding in 4th grade, falls in love with technology and ends up being the CTO of a billion dollar company. However, that was the pathway for Elissa Murphy, CTO of GoDaddy. In my interview, Murphy shares that she fell in love with computers at a … Read more

Pedal karts, volleyball, a slide and 5 pillars – GoDaddy opens new Global Tech Center

Pedal karts, fitness gym, indoor climbing wall, sand volleyball courts, gaming, Zen room, on-site chefs and a two-story slide-just some of the perks these GoDaddy employees will have at their new Global Technology Center that opened today in the Tempe ASU Research Park. CEO GoDaddy, Blake Irving, summed up his sentiments about the opening of the 15,000 square-foot … Read more

Top 5 funniest commercials from GoDaddy

Here are some of the funniest and catchiest ad campaigns that GoDaddy has created to engage customers and further their service offerings that help small businesses grow.   Stick It – what you can say to naysayers who doubted your business [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIBfctISM9M[/youtube] Related – when someone other than your mom buys your product [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXNUNQo86ho[/youtube] Puppet Master … Read more

GoDaddy's brutal honesty wins the hearts of small biz owners

Moving away from its girls in tight t-shirts and its sex-sells attitude, GoDaddy is continuing to shift its strategy to campaigns that feature strong women in small businesses who are typically outshone by the market’s top dogs. In an effort to help small businesses across the world grow and become successful, GoDaddy rebranded itself in 2013 under … Read more

GoDaddy + Microsoft team up to help small businesses Get Online for $1

What can you really buy for a buck these days? A lottery ticket, something from the dollar menu at McDonald’s or a bottle of water at a high school football game. But what if you could build your business online for $1? Today, two technology giants, GoDaddy and Microsoft, announced their latest creation, Get Online … Read more

Small biz owners "Stick It" to naysayers in new GoDaddy campaign

Brutal truth describes GoDaddy’s new ad campaign where small business owners tell their naysayers to “Stick it” with a fair amount of finger-pointing (just not the middle one). Building off its momentum to empower small business owners, GoDaddy will roll out its 2014 advertising campaign today with its first of two ads during ESPN’s “Monday … Read more

GoDaddy acquires the scrappy and happy email marketing co. Mad Mimi

Gary Levitt, co-founder and CEO, Mad Mimi, began his business with music in mind. Levitt, a bass player, and his brother, wanted to develop an app that helped musicians create online press kits. About six months into it, they switched and developed a product that allowed people to produce marketing emails in a simple, musical-like … Read more

IO appoints former GoDaddy exec Bob Olson to Chief Customer Officer

IO, a global leader in software-defined data centers, announced recently that it is changing up its executive team: Bob Olson has been appointed Chief Customer Officer. Olson will lead sales, marketing and human resources teams to grow IO’s customer base. IO’s Director of Corporate Communications, Lauren Rosenblum explained that Olson will develop consistency and continuity across departments to … Read more

Ok ladies, "It's Go Time!" GoDaddy's image makeover puts women entrepreneurs at center stage

GoDaddy, the world’s largest domain name provider, has been steadily rebranding its image over the past year, and today they announced another big step in their creative overhaul: GoDaddy has hired advertising agency Barton F Graf 9000 to continue its image makeover in a new campaign set to premiere in September. The ad agency has … Read more

GoDaddy files for $100M IPO

Scottsdale’s GoDaddy, the domain name and web hosting company that has helped numerous small businesses and distributed 57 million domain names, has submitted a registration statement proposing a $100 million initial public offering (IPO) of its stock. The company announced that it filed the registration statement with the United States Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Monday, … Read more