In a continuously evolving on-line world, the place challenges and alternatives intertwine on the internet, the story of Iván González Barrasa, also called Barrasa, stands out as an inspiring instance of imaginative and prescient and perseverance from an early age.
On the age of 13, within the second grade of Secondary Schooling in Spain, Iván ventured into the world of programming. What started as a pastime quickly was a enterprise that might mark the start of his entrepreneurial journey.
His curiosity about know-how and computing led him to discover the digital panorama on his personal. In a world the place codes and contours of programming intertwine to create countless potentialities.
His first steps as an Entrepreneur
His preliminary enterprise into entrepreneurship got here with an internet gaming server. Barrasa targeted on offering an distinctive gaming expertise, and his dedication shortly attracted numerous on-line gamers. This expertise marked the start line in his life as a programmer.
On the age of 16, simply two years after his preliminary success, alongside his gaming accomplice, Javier Loureiro, he introduced Nexbi to life, a gaming and social networking platform. This initiative emerged as an answer to an issue that Ivan Barrasa and Javier had personally skilled: the problem of discovering gaming companions of the identical nationality or age in widespread video games like Fortnite, Name of Obligation, Counter-Strike, and extra.
Nexbi not solely managed to deal with a necessity throughout the on-line gaming group but additionally turned an immediate success. With over 1 million customers on its platform, they showcased their skill to establish the issue and the talent to develop the appliance and handle the challenge with their whole workforce within the aggressive world of know-how. What’s much more exceptional is that 90% of the appliance operates with synthetic intelligence.
Due to Nexbi, the workforce led by Barrasa has secured over €100,000 in rounds of funding from enterprise angels, enabling the exponential development of the platform, the addition of recent options, and the administration {of professional} tournaments with money prizes and digital merchandise, sponsored by industry-leading know-how corporations.
What subsequent
At simply 20 years of age, Barrasa continues to discover new enterprise alternatives. Regardless of his younger age, he views it as a major benefit, permitting him to take dangers and study from experiences extra swiftly. To him, taking dangers is a chance for development and studying.
His journey from his early days on this planet of gaming to the creation and success of Nexbi is an inspiration for these looking for to enterprise into the digital realm. It displays that age will not be a barrier to success and that younger minds with imaginative and prescient and keenness can obtain the objectives they set for themselves.