Ahammed Mirdas – Founder of PluginHive
I am Ahammed Mirdas, and I am the Founder of PluginHive from Bangalore, India. From a young age, I was passionate about solving problems — whether it was through mathematics, chess, or helping out in my family’s business. Later, during…
Alex Florescu – Founder of ShortPixel
I am Alex Florescu. I live in Bucharest, Romania, and I’ve been playing around with computers since I can remember. I studied computer science and spent the last 20 years building stuff online. These days, I lead product development at…
May 7, 2021 / PluginsI am Chris Badgett, CEO, and co-founder of LifterLMS. I live on a small farm in a small town on the coast of Maine in the United States. I grew up in North Carolina and studies Anthropology, Sustainable Development, and…
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February 25, 2021 / PluginsMy name is Sebastiaan van der Lans, the founder of WordProof, and I live in Amsterdam with my soon-to-be-husband Mirco. I started studying to become an engineer. In 2016, I started my WordPress agency ‘Van Ons’ and switched my study to…
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February 9, 2021 / PluginsI am Anh Tran, the founder of the Meta Box plugin for WordPress. Many people know me via the nickname Rilwis when I first started with WordPress (sharing my knowledge on my personal Deluxe Blog Tips blog). I’m living in…
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December 13, 2020 / PluginsI am Adrian, the CEO of Groundhogg Inc., FormLift.NET, and co-founder of MailHawk.io. I help small businesses launch their funnel, grow their list, and scale their business with proven digital marketing tools and strategies. I’m from Toronto, Ontario in Canada…
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November 9, 2020 / PluginsI am Vito Peleg, the founder of Atarim, originally from Israel and based in London, UK. I was not the best student in school, but I was always curious, inventing little things from a young age - I always preferred…
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September 13, 2020 / PluginsMy name is Shikhil Sharma, an entrepreneur who loves the art of cybersecurity and building products that make the internet a more secure place. I got attracted to ‘hacking’ as a teenager. Breaking websites, learning how systems can be hacked…
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August 30, 2020 / PluginsI am Natalie MacLees, the founder of Simply Schedule Appointments, but my friends and family affectionately call me "Nat." Experiences in my childhood highlighted the inequities in the world for me. As I grew up, I got more and more…
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July 30, 2020 / PluginsI am Frank Goossens, founder of Optimizing Matters, the developer of Autoptimize, and some other WordPress plugins. Optimizing Matters houses the commercial aspects of my WordPress work. I was born, raised, and still living in the northern part of Belgium in…
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July 18, 2020 / PluginsI am Brian Jackson, an entrepreneur, content marketer, and WordPress agency owner from sunny Scottsdale, Arizona. I’m a PK (pastor’s kid) and growing up, we moved around a bit. I've lived in a couple of interesting places over the years:…
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July 10, 2020 / PluginsI am Michael Makijenko, the founder and CEO of Visual Composer. I'm from Riga, Latvia, and together with my team we are proudly serving and helping users worldwide to get their business online. I have a master’s degree in Telecommunications,…
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June 8, 2020 / PluginsI am Jean-Baptiste Marchand-Arvier (a pretty complicated name right?), people call me JB that’s much easier. I’m the co-founder and CEO of WP Media. Our mission is to help people having faster websites. We have two products so far WP…
