Michel Van Velde

I think it was about two and a half, I think.

Yeah.

We want to see a real pervasive data culture, and then the rest flows behind that.

Sorry, this is a consulting business.

Well, 14 years ago, 15 years ago, I started the agency called OneShoe to offer an integrated experience, starting from brand strategy and then directed to digital strategy and then translated into either campaigns or building large-scale websites, platforms, basically a complete digital experience.

So I built basically an integrated agency for our clients.

2006.

The funny thing was, I started with two secondhand laptops.

I registered myself at the trade register.

That evening, my wife gave a party at home and she said,

It's really interesting that you have a company, but do not give your business cards to all my friends.

Please don't do so.

So the first person that comes in starts telling me a story that he just started a company and that he needed a website and basically a brand strategy.

everything so and that's where i basically got my first client um and then i approached several of my my well basically my my closest friends in my network who worked at large brands um and well they they believed my story and they gave me my first opportunities so how much revenue in that first year in 2006 uh revenue in first year was about 200 300k

Well, the interesting bit is I sold my company last year to the Intractor Group.

OneShoe?

I sold OneShoe to the Intractor Group, and I basically built the company up until 45 people.

And now my company has become part of the Intracto group.

And we now have over 1,500 employees.

25.