Did you know? At one point, Rand + Gillian had just under $500K in personal debt. By 2007, it was all paid off, thanks to the magical super-awesomeness of SEO! 2004 1981 1997 2001Feb. 2007 Nov. 2007 Oct. 2008 Sept. 2010 July 2011 Gillian (Rand’s Mom) founds the company that will become SEOmoz Rand starts working w/ Gillian building websites for small, local businesses Rand drops out of UW, 2 classes from graduation to work full time w/ Gillian Deeply in debt, and failing to get traffic to clients’ sites, Rand starts the SEOmoz Blog as part of learning the SEO process. SEOmoz launches its first subscription software product, “PRO” for $39/month SEOmoz takes an investment of $1.1M from Ignition Partners & Curious Office Linkscape, SEOmoz’sweb index and link graph, launches. By December, mozis profitable. A Little MozHistory (now in color! ) Moz’scollection of tools becomes a singular, campaign-based web app. Prices rise to $99 / $499 / $1999 per month. SEOmozis moving from just “SEO” to social media, content marketing, analytics, local and video. To this end, we’ve acquired “Moz.com.”