Call it what you want: hard work, dumb luck, the greatest called shot in recent Traverse City business history. No matter how you look at it, the story of Keen Technical Solutions is a fascinating one, full of big gambles, surprising left turns and evolution fast enough to keep up with the changing trends of a rapidly shifting industry.
For Tim Pulliam and Stephen Morse, who co-founded the company together back in the late 2000s, one of the secrets to Keen’s success is that they never defined specifically what the business was going to be.
Loosely, the foundational pitch was …