Acquaintance

When he finished his studies, the computer world had almost matured and he could even choose between many companies, and it seemed as if the trees grew into the sky.

Later in life, he also completed a business economics evening course at HBO level. Something that became especially useful as a supplement to his other activities.

Due to his self-taught skills, he almost always succeeded to stay a little bit ahead of the employees at the companies that hired him.

Unfortunately, lead times became longer and longer, meaning he spent longer and longer on the same project. Because he preferred to change more often, he tried to get some more variations into his work on his own initiatives.

He founded his first company in 1994, mainly creating applications for PCs. Thanks to his knowledge of video, music, photos and sound, he was often able to create software, where other companies were far from ready for it.

With a lot of talking and serious voodoo, JGJ, together with a couple of other e-commerce pioneers, succeeded in making credit card payments possible through an Scottish bank. It was not real-time, but handling it once a day was at least a breakthrough.

From that moment on, JGJ became increasingly active in the field of Sales and Marketing. When Google came up with the first options for placing Adwords/ads related to keywords in 2002, JGJ was the very first person in the Netherlands to use this and generated a lot of turnover for his then klant.

Initially he built his own webshop, mainly selling games, consoles and accessories. But during the financial crisis around 2010, sales went down so hard that this has stopped.

Around that time, he started building websites, web shops and web applications for other companies. Thanks to its own modular system, it was quite easy to adapt it to all wishes of his customers.

Because there were many administrative matters involved, his wife also did a lot of work for this. These activities all formally stopped at the end of 2023.