Okay, I just have to bite at this one.

I owned and ran a marketing/design company for 17 years (starting in 1993) before my deep dive into WordPress. I spent several years creating hideous HTML sites for clients and dreaded every moment as I came from the world of print. So by 2007 I was desperate for a better and easier solution.

Having had a growing interest in blogging since 2005, when I hit that pinnacle, it was WordPress that I landed on. At the same time I realized that I could create decent looking sites for clients without knowing code. Sweet. That led to creating the BobWP brand in 2010 and as they say, the rest is history.