The company grew fast and it was the move to new, larger premises in the neighbouring district of Lörick – right in the heart of Düsseldorf “Japan Town”. In addition to Luxembourg Schools, which continued to rely on PowerFolder, the GWDG, the “Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen” (a joint-institution founded by the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Max Planck Society) also created their own in-house cloud using the PowerFolder software. In 2011, PowerFolder was able to win more and more customers from the education sector. During this year, PowerFolder began to focus on German SMEs – and on customers from the IT and mechanical engineering industries, in particular. The “Leetspeak” spelling of the name serving a reminder of the founder’s computer gaming past. One year later, the formal founding of the company, “dal33t UG”, took place. Even in those early days, Bernhard Rutkowsky, now responsible for marketing, support and web development, was already on board. The first customers in 2009 included the French Fortune 500 company Bolloré and the “Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers” – better known by the abbreviation ICANN. It all started with humble beginnings – a small apartment in Dusseldorf, although the motto was “Think Big”. With a degree and a completed, functioning product in the bag, to boot, Christian Sprajc took the road to self-employment with PowerFolder.
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And, having already thought about it all in a practical and pragmatic way, he also made the software project his dissertation topic – killing two birds with one stone. After a 40-hour coding marathon, the first prototype was ready.
As the right program for the task did not exist at the time, today’s PowerFolder CEO decided to write it himself. While studying business information technology, PowerFolder inventor Christian Sprajc wanted to easily exchange study documents with his fellow students, but without having to awkwardly send them backwards and forwards by email. Many great inventions have been born out of necessity. PowerFolder – the way from the start-up to the professional class
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