I’ve worked in many fields: manufacturing and retail, insurance, office services and construction, as a buyer, in customer service and in IT, as a fitness trainer and as a project manager. Along the way I also built my own online shops. Different as those roles were, I had the same one everywhere: the problem solver. When colleagues or friends run into a problem, I’m still usually the first person they ask. And I always look at how things get done. Where does it get stuck? What does everyone do the hard way every day, just because it’s always been done like that? And how could it be simpler?
Along the way I realised: often the best solution is a tool built for exactly that one task. When software fits the work instead of the other way round, it saves time and nerves – and the people using it are noticeably happier. That’s why I also build such solutions for companies, tailored to how they work.
The same goes for free time. I’ve been sailing since I was eleven and have explained to countless people how wind turns into drive – with hands, sketches and a lot of patience. Plenty of skippers know the feeling. That’s how Sailforce came about.
“The richest place in the world is the graveyard.”
That sentence has shaped me – because so many ideas lie there that were never brought to life. Personal growth has been with me since I was a teenager, and my biggest goal is simple: helping people turn their ideas into reality, get things done, live healthier and more mindfully, and be more content in the end. A positive life, really – hence the name.
New ideas for making things simpler come to me all the time. And when one of them clicks, I tend to lose track of time until the solution is finished and everyone can benefit from it.