“Most executives who think back to the financial crisis of 2008 remember widespread panic.
For Ari Rabban, it was a golden moment that helped launch his company.
Phone.com, formed in December 2007 to provide Internet-based telephone service for very small businesses, was busy planting seeds of growth during a time of economic ruin. Rabban, its CEO, said his company benefited from two key trends — high unemployment and high technology — that emerged from the recession.”