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    Mayel de Borniol

    Mayel de Borniol

    Hacking the world.
    Previously co-founded @babelverse, award-winner: LeWeb, TheNextWeb, TechCrunch Disrupt; alumni: @500startups @startupchile @mass-challenge-uk

    Entrepreneur France University of Paris VIII
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    Projects
    FutureRising platform
    Content, Events, Networking, Profiles
    Interim CTO, PHP, MySQL, Javascript · I built the initial platform from scratch, including a custom CMS, social networking platform,… · More etc.

    Platform which connects students and graduates with the creative industries.
    Adam Oldfield
    Donald
    With Donald, Adam Oldfield
    Boxall Profile Online
    Social and emotional literacy test
    Consultant / Developer, PhalconPHP, PHP, MySQL · Designed and developed the entire online platform, including a scoring system, graphs and PDF reports,… · More an individualised learning plan tool with user-generated strategies and resources, etc...

    The Boxall Profile is a resource for teachers to the assess students' social, emotional and behavioural development.
    Edurne Scott Loinaz
    With Edurne Scott Loinaz
    GetAcross
    App to quickly connect refugees and volunteers
    Founder & Developer, Javascript, WebRTC, PHP · Helping refugees freely communicate across language barriers with the help of volunteer interpreters.
    Wendy Abrantes
    With Wendy Abrantes
     
    Experience
    Rene Diaz
    Rene Diaz
    Freelance
    GetAcross
    GetAcross
    Founder 2015 - Present (over 11 years)
    Helping refugees freely communicate across language barriers with the help of volunteer interpreters.
    Self-Employed
    Self-Employed
    Tech & Startup Consultant / Freelance Developer 2004 - Present (over 21 years)
    Working freelance on-and-off for various clients around the world, as well as my own projects, and those of my friends.
    Babelverse
    Babelverse
    Founder, CTO 2010 - 2015 (about 5 years)
    Babelverse gave itself the mission to break down language barriers. It was a unique innovative and award winning start-up (LeWeb, The Next Web, TechCrunch Disrupt) with global... more reach.

    CNBC said: "Like many other rapidly growing start-ups, Babelverse was born to address a universal problem. [...] Innovation or disruption, Babelverse is at the forefront of the tech-driven changes shaking up the $34 billion language-services market. [...] the industry is finally having its start-up moment."
    La Tele Libre
    La Tele Libre
    Consultant and Webmaster 2006 - 2010 (about 4 years)
    Non-profit independent online TV (shows, interviews and documentaries about the news, politics, society, art). Still operating to this day.
    LeLab.TV
    LeLab.TV
    Co-Founder 2007 - 2008 (about 1 year)
    LeLab was a French internet TV channel. A "laboratory" of emerging media & cultures: new society phenomena, digital cultures, new forms of political action, music, contemporary... more art, fiction... With a team of journalists and internet people, driven by a spirit of freedom and a will to escape the formats of traditional television, LeLab.TV created more than a dozen original programs.

    Besides being involved with production, etc, I developed the site & broadcasting platform (web/mobile/set-top-box)
    Rádio Nova
    Rádio Nova
    Consultant and developer for online projects 2006 - 2008 (about 2 years)
    Great experience helping out the most awesome radio station in the world!
    Among other things, I developed and set up tools to automatically distribute their content as... more podcasts, plugging directly into their legacy systems.
    leweb2zero.tv
    leweb2zero.tv
    Consultant and Developer 2006 - 2007 (about 1 year)
    User-generated but curated video plateform, with all features of a Youtube-like.
    Created for Karl Zéro (french network TV host).

    I developed and managed the entire... more content platform (browsing with categories, tags & search; user uploads with any-format video transcoding; custom player; threaded comments; moderation, etc) and set up the hosting (1 data center bay). There were more than 10,000 users uploading videos that were viewed millions of times, and leaving hundreds of thousands of comments.
    Podemus
    Podemus
    Co-Founder 2005 - 2006 (about 1 year)
    Podemus was a podcast platform. Search, discover and consume audio/video shows & podcasts as simply as possible, and also distribute your own content via its specialized... more blog platform, with rich audio & video content.

    On the technical side, I took care of all development:
    - Directory, search engine and user-customizable AJAX home page
    - Blog platform hosting 25,000 blogs blogs with audio & video content
    - Setup and administration of several server bays
    - Integration with hardware media device
    Founder
    Babelverse, GetAcross
    Employee
    Self-Employed, LeLab.TV, leweb2zero.tv, La Tele Libre, Rádio Nova, Podemus, Rene Diaz
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    About
    Achievements

    I was most recently co-founder/CTO of Babelverse – the universal translator for spoken communication, powered by polyglots around the world – a revolutionary global startup. I presented Babelverse at dozens of international conferences and various events, won some awards (TechCrunch, LeWeb, TheNextWeb, etc), and gotten plenty of press coverage (CNBC, FastCompany, etc). We were seed funded by Startup Chile, 500 Startups and SV Angel.

    I previously co–founded 3 other startups (Podemus, a podcasting platform; LeLab.TV, an online TV; and ANETech Labs, a web/app agency).

    I consider myself a MacGyver, creating innovative and feature-rich applications, like playing with lego.

    I’ve been in charge of everything from product design to coding, pitching to fundraising, hiring to project management, cloud/server setups to system admin, community building to creating a movement, branding to PR to social media, marketing to sales to customer service, etc...

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Internet Web Development Computer Hardware Software Development IT Management Server Administration Network Security Databases Social Media Podcasting Blogging Javascript PHP HTML Online Marketing Software Project Management HTML + CSS Mobile Application Design Digital Media Business Development Business Strategy Business Operations Business Model Innovation Technical Innovation Back-End Development Frontend Development Full Stack Development Mobile Development Software Architecture
    Locations
    Argentina San Francisco United Kingdom Berlin Germany Barcelona
     
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    Q&A
    What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

    Rework

    What's your favorite non-business book?

    Asimov's Foundation series

    If money were not an issue, what would you be doing right now?

    Exactly what I'm doing (but with more focus on long term 'moonshot' type projects)

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