In the early 1980s, Founder & Chairman, Chuck Surack develops and sells his own custom Kurzweil sounds and single-handedly builds a CRM system from scratch. In 1994, Sweetwater launches one of the first websites in the music industry with Sweetwater.com. Today, our Technology team is responsible for millions of lines of code built in-house for users on-site and the digital presence of the country’s most successful online music instrument retailer.
We're committed to using and supporting open source. Not only does it result in more stable technologies with fewer bugs, but it's also fast-paced and iterative, which is a fantastic match for our company culture.
We don’t just measure success by the number of new features we ship or goals we check off the list. What we do translates to meaningful change for the company and for each other.
#75
on the Internet Retailer Top 500 List
50K
products online
30%
YOY revenue growth
5M
customers
146
Internal custom apps
2M
Lines of CRM code
We also measure success by the impact we have on the lives and shopping experiences of our customers.
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