InVision began as an internal agency tool without commercial intent
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Clark Valberg is the founder and CEO of InVision, a digital product design platform. Here he discusses how InVision originated at his New York digital agency, Epicenter Consulting.
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“I ran an agency here in New York building digital products for other people, additional kind of digital agency, you know, early in the digital agency world, probably, but the problem we were looking to solve was the problem that we had in the company with no intent whatsoever to turn this into a commercial product. In fact, I'll argue we went as far as to kind of hope That no one would ever find out, right, about this thing called Envision that we use as our unfair advantage, our competitive advantage to the agency.”
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