Jay Batson
VP, Co-founder
Acquia, Inc.
Acquia is the second technology company Jay has founded, and is also his second commercial open-source effort (the previous having been Pingtel, acquired by Nortel). Jay's passion is to build great companies that build products that make users happy. So at Acquia, he searches out new products and service opportunities the company can offer its customers to make Drupal more valuable to those who use it.
Jay is also a cycling fanatic - both riding, and being a fan of the Pro Tour. He earned his JD from University of Denver.
Recent blog posts
Posted on Tuesday, November 3, 2009 - 14:40
In installment one of this Debunking Drupal Myths series, I mentioned that the proprietary software companies who are starting to see Drupal on their competitive screen are worried. They're using the classic FUD technique -- trying to raise Fear,
More... Posted on Sunday, October 25, 2009 - 14:53
Acquia has quickly become successful in increasing the exposure of Drupal to "CTO-level" conversations at larger enterprises. Despite the fact that there are numerous examples of big companies using it, Drupal is really still pretty unknown in big
More... Posted on Friday, August 14, 2009 - 14:37
Dries & I (well, let's just say "Acquia") are doing a little research and we want you guys to be a part of it. We're looking down the road and evaluating a variety of new things to add to our product offerings. We're interested in your
More... Posted on Tuesday, July 21, 2009 - 13:21
It is so amazing to have a great, global community of passionate Drupalists. It usually means that you can quickly find people who are of like mind that want to help the Drupal world grow in ways that are new, unique, and useful. Today is no
More... Posted on Friday, June 19, 2009 - 10:52
This weekend, 150+ people assembled at the MIT Stata Center in Cambridge for the first-ever Design4Drupal Camp. This was unique in that a large majority of the attendees were deeply involved in design - not just coding modules. While some of the
More... Posted on Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 13:57
I'm happy to have seen the good response to my "What shall we do about themes?" post. I'm particularly glad to see a bunch of self-described designers participating, and to see the thoughtfulness of the comments.
From the 50+ comments, a few
More... Posted on Tuesday, May 19, 2009 - 19:59
Update - 22 Feb 2010: One of the issues lightly touched on below is the market need for some themes besides those on drupal.org. Acquia has started to collect both themes, as well as links to theme providers, at a new site devoted to the design-
More... Posted on Tuesday, March 3, 2009 - 21:50
Acquia isn't my first company; I've constructed a few before. In fact, bringing well-suited people together to achieve something together is one of those things that (I think) I just naturally do. I've done it over and over in life. Maybe it
More... Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2008 - 03:32
The search technology area is highly important to people with websites. As a result, I've spent serious time looking at it. Several things have come from this time spent:
The important thing: We'll soon be adding "hosted site search" capabilities
More... Posted on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 - 18:01
This isn't a high-falutin', high-thinking blog post. It's just about the kind of culture we have here.
As you may have seen, I like cycling. And many (most) of our code-names for projects are all cycling terms -- like Carbon for our distribution,
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