GET to know us #9: Maarten

To give you a little insight into the GET Protocol team, we are introducing ourselves in a series of blogs. Read about what we do, both at work and in our personal lives, and why we believe the GET Protocol is going to take over the world. Here’s number 9, our CEO Maarten!

What’s your name and job title?

Maarten Bloemers, CEO.

How long have you been at the GET Protocol foundation?

From the very beginning.

What do you do exactly?

I make sure everybody is happy, and with everybody I mean; clients, employees, investors, advisors, GET-holders and the dog “Keetje Tippel”. In no particular order.

How do you describe what you do here to your friends or family?

We’re on a mission to create a worldwide honest ticketing market.

What do you do when you are not at the office?

Enjoying life with my family & friends and I’m training for another marathon. I enjoy a little coding, but this is just for kicks. Nobody in the dev team would allow me to actually build something for the application and rightly so.

What do you think Kasper’s secret for his productivity is?

Kasper is a savant from another galaxy. This galaxy consists solely of creatures who are unable to pronounce complete coherent sentences. If Kasper does not include 18 unrelated topics within one sentence his head will explode. The only way for these ‘things’ to communicate in an earthly way is the creation of text walls. Kasper is paid in rubber bands, a highly sought after commodity on his home planet. Kasper believes we’re actually building a GET-rocket so he can send them home. The amount of rubber bands acquired so far would make him richer than the alien equivalent of Crassus.

Where do you see GET in three years?

GET-protocol is adopted in at least 3 other countries and processing over 5 million tickets per year.

Any personal message to the community?

Be nice to the community managers and the rest of the team. They are working their socks off and I’m very proud of our achievements. We want to underpromise and overdeliver, therefor our main focus is (and will be for some time) the business fundamentals. The rest will follow! Hodl in there. It’s a marathon not a sprint.