👨🏼‍💻 From being a gamer kid to becoming the CEO of an industry-leading company.It all started in 1999 in my parents' basement. Gaming down there, like there was no tomorrow, I soon started tinkering with my computer to make it quieter and faster.I was – as you’d say – a classic nerd. Back then, being a nerd was anything but cool, and gaming was nothing more than a niche industry. But that didn’t stop me. At the age of 16, I launched my first website to share my knowledge about tuning hardware, and I was quickly approached by companies who wanted to advertise on my website. The website continued to grow and eventually became a limited company, that I then sold in my mid-20s. Through this experience, I was able to say more about the market and its offerings than most other hardware tech companies. That’s when I founded technikPR, where we continue to advise companies such as AMD, Gigabyte, and CHERRY on marketing and PR topics.Simultaneously, after years of working in partnership with be quiet! I was asked by their founders to run their company (- mind you, my career started with them advertising on my blog back when I was a teenager).And I said yes without hesitation!Now that basement kid from back then is the CEO of a company with over 150 employees - what a turnaround! But not only I have developed. The gaming industry has changed too. Today nerds are cool, and gaming is hip. With 3.2 billion gamers and a turnover of more than 200 billion euros worldwide, the gaming industry has become very influential. be quiet!, is part of this and is actively shaping the future of gaming hardware. If you want to become one of our players, send me a message here on LinkedIn!