Pros
Fantastic people, one of Nashville's earliest tech companies.
Cons
Purchase in 2016 by Irvine, CA-based Incipio Technologies was the beginning of the end. West Coast parent never quite figured out how to integrate largely overlapping product lines, sales force was largely ambivalent to Griffin-branded products, Griffin all but abandoned the innovative audio and connectivity accessories that were the company's calling card. Multiple layoffs that began in summer of 2015 (prior to purchase) culminated in October 2017 with the sudden elimination of Griffin's engineering, industrial design, product dev, sales, and marketing operations in Nashville. The remaining business (tech support call center and warehousing) closed July 31, 2018. At its height, Griffin employed more than 300 of Nashville's brightest nerds. Today, it's a fond memory of what was.