Makis Levis

Innovation, creativity, and ability to learn every day something new are the things that excite me the most.

My degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science allow me to break any problem into smaller units making the process of problem-solving more comprehensible. During the six years, I've worked in the financial sector I had the opportunity to work with charismatic leaders and managers who helped me get a solid understanding of business.

In 2007, I created Remote Access, an IT-as-a-Service company. Remote Access was offering a turn-key solution using the SPI model (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS) to small, medium-size companies mainly from the financial sector in six different countries (Greece, Israel, USA, Bermuda, Switzerland, Guernsey). I've sold the company in October 2013.

Few days later, our first son, Yonatan, was born, and I decided to take some time off and help my wife raising him. An incredible experience! During my 'Sabbatical' I founded two startups, ask4reviews and myTQ.

Given that, 42% of startups fail due to 'No Market Need.' I've thought that the solution would be to allow startups validate their ideas with their customers. They could create questionnaires and find the 'right' people based on their LinkedIn profile to answer those questionnaires. ask4reviews would help them ask the right people. LinkedIn changed the information they share through their API and we focused on the next startup.

I'm an active host at Airbnb since 2011. I've realised that if I wanted to publish my apartment to other platforms I couldn't bring the reviews with me. So I thought that if I could have one profile on which I could link all my profiles from the different platforms, I could create my personal 'brand'. As I was developing this idea with my partner I discovered that it would be helpful for everyone if we could get reviews about user's behaviour and personality from the people who had a transaction through any of the platforms that we monitor.