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Generation Tech

Meet thirty Texas multimedia whizzes under thirty. One of them could be the next Michael Dell.
by Patricia Busa and Katy Vine

Davin Carten, 28 Creative Director
Jason Fellman, 26 President
Steve Golab, 25 Chief Financial Officer
Casey Gum, 25 Creative Director

FGSquared, Austin

What they do Create multimedia business-to-business communications products such as CD-ROMs for training courses. They founded the company when they were barely of legal-drinking age, which made it hard to sell themselves as experts. Not anymore; their clients include Microsoft and Dell.
Sounds like a FOX sitcom One plays guitar, another plays drums, another says he sings show tunes, and another screws up clichés ("hook, sink, and ladder").
What's next? They'll double the size of their staff, to seventy, by next year.

Sheridan Chambers, 23 CEO
Dan Cornell, 22 Vice President, Software Development
Tyson Weihs, 23 Vice President, Operations

Atension, San Antonio

Untangling the Web They develop homepages, create efficient work flow, and tweak online shopping sites for small Texas businesses like Ties.com and Baseball Express (the latter credits Atension with building a site so right-on that it receives a few million hits a month). Revenues were about $330,000 in 1998, up nearly 350 percent from '97.
Toga! Toga! Their office is a cross between a frat house and the floor of the New York Stock Exchange; true to form, they attack projects with the enthusiasm of kids around a keg.

Gilbert Chavarria, 27 Head 3-D Animator

KTSM-TV, El Paso

The adman cometh In addition to creating graphics and animation for the NBC affiliate's nightly newscasts, Chavarria is an animator and Web designer who has worked on advertising spots for clients like Tony Lama Boots. Last year, the weekly newspaper El Paso Inc. named him one of the area's top five Web designers.
Yo quiero biographical details He's a self-described computer geek, a pack rat, a toy freak, and a devotee of a certain fast-food chain: "I have this intense fascination with Taco Bell that I don't think people really understand."

Tim Heckler, 27 Co-founder, CEO
Sean Stoner, 29 Co-founder, Director of Technology

Hypercon, Houston

Don't touch that dial-up Hypercon has been voted the best Internet-service provider three years in a row by readers of the Houston Press. Clients include Texaco, Perot Systems, and Microsoft Sidewalk Houston.
School ties Heckler and Stoner have known each other since they were kids, when they attended St. Thomas Episcopal School; many of their employees went there too.
Not hyper The work environment is laid-back. Stoner preaches the Southwest Airlines philosophy: If your employees are happy, your customers will benefit.

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