118:'s 100 Best Companies to Work For. With regard to his business philosophy, Beck has said that, "Our company has benefited from leaving the last dollar on the table for the other guy. This allows you to develop a good reputation working with customers. What you want to do is delight the customer. And if that costs money sometimes, then it costs money. As an underlying philosophy, that's critical to our culture." And when asked by
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rewrote the program and renamed it DESTINI." Beck later refined the product over the course of the next 10 years and named it DProfiler. Said Beck, "There was no such tool on the market {at the time} for the AEC (architecture, engineering, construction) industry." No such program had been invented
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