Tragic Media was founded in 2009 by Rich Rudzinski after leaving his job at a large national agency in San Diego. Rich saw a growing gap in the digital service landscape. Existing marketing and design agencies were ill-equiped to scope and manage the growing complexity of emerging technologies.

He saw the "tragic" way that client projects were treated at these agencies, either being outsourced and poorly built overseas or hobbled together by under-skilled internal resources. Ultimately the solutions that were delivered were riddled with technical debt, and not built to scale.

Initially Tragic served as a white-label resource for other agencies, helping to save them from their own development tragedies. Slowly, the company pivoted to bring trusted, reliable software development services directly to businesses.

Over the last decade, Rich has built a team of technical experts - and more importantly a brand - focused on providing expert technical support and solutions for companies of all sizes.