HISTORY Back in May of 1998 GovWorks.com was founded and had 8 employees in it. The idea of such an internet service was inspired by the best friends and two co-founders: Kaleil Isaza Tuzman and Tom Herman. They have left their jobs to start work on the website. The company has started with a couple of computers, a comparatively tiny office and one car. With its very quick extension just in a few months the company grew to 30 employees, but it was the beginning. Their goal was just pompous: to transform
business, keeping it alive/fresh and constantly coming up with new aspects to make their product better than the competition. This is exactly where Kaleil and Tom went wrong. STARTUP.com is the story of two best friends since a very young age coming up with an idea of basically paying traffic tickets and registering vehicles online! Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, a savvy business man who left his job at Goldman Sachs felt this idea would be the one that would fulfill his need of money for the rest of his life
documentary is centered on the lead entrepreneur, Kaleil Isaza Tuzman, and his attempt at balancing opportunity, resources, and relationships at govWorks. As the person who originally derived the idea of paying parking tickets online, he has many of the critical personal attributes of a successful entrepreneur that was noted in William Bygrave’s The Portable MBA in Entrepreneurship. For example, in terms of achieved characteristics and tangible assets, Kaleil graduated from Harvard University and his previous