Thoughtworks Results Presentation Deck
Through Thoughtworks' 29-year history
1993
1990s
Thoughtworks was
founded
1999
Guo Xiao and
Dr. Rebecca Parsons
joined Thoughtworks
2000-2009
2000
Opened offices in Australia and the
United Kingdom
Led the industry in adopting a
distributed agile development
approach
2001
Opened offices in India and
da
Guo Xiao is featured in The Economist
as an early adopter of Extreme
Programming (XP)
Manifesto for Agile Software
Development is published
Released Cruise Control open source
software
2004
Opened offices in China
Selenium is developed based on work
started internally at Thoughtworks
Surpassed 500 Thoughtworkers
2005
Established Thoughtworks University
2009
Opened offices in Brazil
Surpassed 1,000 Thoughtworkers
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2010-2014
2010
Opened offices in Germany
Published Continuous
Delivery: Reliable Software
Releases through Build, Test,
and Deployment Automation
2011
Published first edition
of Thoughtworks
Technology Radar
2012
Opened offices in Singapore
Started building Bahmni
2013
Opened offices in Ecuador
2014
Opened offices in Italy
Published Microservices
Surpassed $300mm¹
in annual revenues and
3,000 Thoughtworkers
2015
2015-2019
Collaborated with Save the Children
in the fight against Ebola
Published Building Microservices
2016
Opened offices in Spain and Chile
Winner of the AnitaB.org Institute's
Top Companies for Women
Technologists, winning again in
2017 and 2018, and recognized
as a leader in 2019 and 2020
2017
The Apax Funds acquired
Thoughtworks
Surpassed $500mm¹ in annual
revenues
2018
Awarded Daimler Supplier of the
Year for Innovation for 2017
Surpassed 5,000 Thoughtworkers
2019
Published The Digital Transformation
Game Plan: 34 Tenets for Masterfully
Merging Technology and Business
and How to Move Beyond a Monolithic
Data Lake to a Distributed Data Mesh
Surpassed $700mm¹ in annual revenues
2020-2022
2020
Named strong performer
in The Forrester Wave™: Digital Product
Development Services, Q2 2020
Committed to the Valuable 500, the
global movement putting disability on
the business leadership agenda
Awarded IT Vendor of the Year 2020 at
the UK IT Industry Awards
2021
Acquired Gemini and Fourkind
Listed as a public company on Nasdaq.
Ticker symbol TWKS
Surpassed 10,000 Thoughtworkers
Published Software Architecture:
The Hard Parts
2022
Announced plans to open office in
Vietnam²
Acquired Connected, Canada ³
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