FEATURE : DAVID & AUBRI STONE
Cultivating Community And Prioritizing Education : How David And Aubri Stone Put People Before The Paycheck At IT Firm Cybertools
Imagine you ’ re a bride whose wedding is only two weeks away when your soon-to-be husband comes home and tells you that he ’ s quit his job to open his own IT business . For some , this might be a deal breaker , but for David and Aubri Stone , this was an opportunity to forge a new path in the IT industry that took a proactive , rather than reactive , approach to providing robust technology solutions to business owners .
You see , back in the ’ 90s , there was no such thing as an MSP IT firm . You had break-fix solutions , and that was about it . And frankly , David was fed up with how traditional IT firms were being run at the time . “ I was asking myself : Why are we waiting until the service delivery model breaks to address it ? Why are we waiting until our client ’ s systems get infected with a virus when we should be implementing protective protocols so they don ’ t get infected in the first place ?” David recalls . These were the questions that David grappled with in the weeks leading up to his wedding , which ultimately led him to create Cybertools .
THE CREATION OF CYBERTOOLS
Although Aubri and David now run Cybertools together , David has always been the technology tinkerer — especially as a young boy . He got his first computer , a Commodore 64 , in the seventh grade . This computer immediately sparked an interest in breaking down technology to understand how it works , a
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