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PC Pitstop was featured in the Sioux City Journal<\/a> for the company\u2019s strong ties to the community. \u00a0Many of the company\u2019s high level executives were previous employees of Gateway Computers, headquartered in North Sioux City, South Dakota. \u00a0This includes CEO and founder – Rob Cheng, COO – Keith Linden, Senior VP of Sales and Marketing – Mike Sexton, VP of Sales and Marketing – Corey Munson,\u00a0Director of Media Buying\/Research\u00a0– Lyle Schuknecht, and Administrative Executive – Sheila Molden. \u00a0The article also touts the company\u2019s accomplishment of being one of the fastest growing, privately-owned American companies.<\/p>\n

While Rob was employed as a Senior Vice President at Gateway Computers, he stated one of the problems he was unable to solve was the support line costs. \u00a0Upon leaving Gateway, Rob decided there was a solution. \u00a0That solution was PC Pitstop.<\/p>\n

PC Pitstop was founded for the sole purpose of creating a better way to diagnose common computer problems. \u00a0It did just that. \u00a0In the very beginning, PC Pitstop was a testing site, for PC users to utilize to diagnose computer issues. \u00a0From there the company developed Erase, Exterminate, Optimize, Disk MD and Disk Driver Alert. \u00a0In 2009 PC Pitstop created its biggest security solution, PC Matic. \u00a0In 2011, PC Matic was significantly enhanced with the addition of its proprietary whitelist technology, SuperShield.<\/p>\n

Since its origination, PC Pitstop has grown exponentially. \u00a0Over the last three years, PC Pitstop has had a 68% growth rate and revenues of $11.5 million in 2015. \u00a0The company looks forward to the growth that is yet to come. \u00a0Will you be joining us?<\/p>\n

Click here <\/a>to read the full PC Pitstop third quarter newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PC Pitstop was featured in the Sioux City Journal for the company\u2019s strong ties to the community. \u00a0Many of the company\u2019s high level executives were previous employees of Gateway Computers, headquartered in North Sioux City, South Dakota. \u00a0This includes CEO and founder – Rob Cheng, COO – Keith Linden, Senior VP of Sales and Marketing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":55354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[5030,73],"class_list":["post-55349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-q3-newsletter","tag-inc-5000","tag-pc-pitstop"],"yoast_head":"\nStrong Ties to Silicon Prairie<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"PC Pitstop made headlining news in Sioux City for their strong ties to the Silicon Prairie. 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