Nathan Anderson is the co-founder and head of operations at Nimbl Tech, a fractional IT firm in Lehi, Utah serving small remote accounting and financial services companies with device management, cybersecurity, and compliance. He built it from scratch inside Nimbl, the parent company where he serves as head of tech, after being turned down from a master's program and redirected by a CEO who offered to show him how to build a business instead.
✨ Key Insights You'll Learn:
Managing 1,500 employees to remote work overnight during COVID at the Missionary Training Center
Joining Nimbl part-time while finishing school, starting with basic IT and early automation
Recognizing a market gap when cloud accounting peers kept asking how Nimbl secured its remote team
CEO Dave Olson's offer: skip the MBA and build the company instead
Signing first client July 2024, reaching six figures by end of year one
Three core services: device management, access management, and data security compliance
FTC and IRS compliance documentation: written information security plans and incident response
Phishing emails as the most common real-world threat, not sophisticated outside attacks
AI safety for accounting firms: paid plans, SOC 2 certification, and the right privacy settings
15-minute help desk response time as a non-negotiable standard, not a marketing claim
🌟 Nathan's Key Mentors:
Dave Olson (CEO, Nimbl): Redirected Nathan from pursuing an MBA to building NimblTech, then backed him fully
Missionary Training Center Leadership: Gave Nathan his first large-scale tech transition experience during COVID
Cloud Accounting Community: Provided a collaborative peer network that surfaced the market need NimblTech was built to fill
His Parents: Offered faith-grounded perspective during his lowest point after the master's rejection
NimblTech Clients: Each new service line has come from a client request, shaping the firm's growth organically
👉 Don't miss Nathan's candid account of being rejected from the graduate program all his friends got into, the professor who confirmed he should have been admitted, and the moment a CEO's belief in him changed everything.