I started out by building trading bots, in 2009. I built a few successful ones, a few failing ones but ultimately I learned how to write code. This was the catalyst that I needed to build something big. I wanted to go Silicon Valley, stay with some family friends there and make something out of myself. However another friend invited me to join a start up which brought me all the way over to Luxembourg in 2012. I worked in Europe consulting a local telecom on emerging technologies, business processes and transformation, which I had no idea about, but I learned from great mentors, all senior execs turned consultants. Throughout my 3 years in Europe I tried to launch an analytics and dashboarding startup metrics.im.

My brother (who was in Toronto at the time) and I put together a group of open source enthusiasts and started to build MiM. After a while people lost interest and the project died. When I came back to Toronto back in 2015 I had an idea to build a Robot Call Center. At the time the start-up I worked for was acquired by Ercisson and I had an opportunity to come and pitch my idea to Softbank Japan. So I flew over to Tokyo, but the execs in charge of this mission had other plans. They wanted me to do a proposal on Call Center consolidation, which I had no idea how to do, but luckily I had friend in the industry. So my idea and POC died with them. At this point I decided to do something on the side. Luckily in the summer of 2015 a friend of mine called and said that Orange Switzerland needed an analytics system. So my brother and I volunteered to build it. We built out MiM in 2 weeks, shipped it out and never heard back from them. They deployed it and were running it, but a friend of mine took over all the support for it.