Lehi • Playing tour guide at his company’s just-opened new headquarters, Podium CEO Eric Rea shows off the spacious conference room, the custom-built boardroom table, the pickleball court just outside and the soft-serve Dole Whip dispenser by the reception desk.
“We don’t want [people] to walk in feeling they’re coming into any old tech building. We want to feel different from any other tech company,” Rea said Wednesday, just minutes after he, company officials and Utah Gov. Gary Herbert performed the ritual ribbon-cutting to the five-story edifice along Interstate 15.
Podium, which makes software products to help small businesses maintain their online presence, has 340 employees working in the new Lehi offices — and it aims to hire 400 more by 2020.