Innovation with
Worldwide Impact BY ANNA DERBY SHIRE (‘9 0)
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SNU MAGAZINE | FALL 2021
n 1995, a group of business majors hooked up an answering machine to a phone in an empty dorm room of Snowbarger Hall on the campus of Southern Nazarene University. With the encouragement of long-time professor and mentor, Dr. Larry Mills, and other members of the SNU School of Business faculty, they were determined to build a web hosting company. One member of that group was an innovative thinker and entrepreneur named Bobby Gruenewald (‘97). Today, Bobby serves as a pastor and Innovation Leader at Life.Church, a multi-site Christian church, and is the founder of the YouVersion Bible App. Arguably one of the most innovative, impactful ways the Bible has been made accessible around the world, the YouVersion Bible App is projected to have over 500 million unique downloads by November 2021.
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