I’m actually from Germany Düsseldorf but live in La Gomera at the moment. I’m a father of two children and the CEO of ThemeKraft. I became a full entrepreneur in 2008 when I decided to create a startup with 3 other people.
My WordPress journey started actually with BuddyPress. I learned about WordPress while searching for a social network solution. Back in 2006 I built a niche community for an internet radio targeting the subculture in my town. We used BuddyPress for radio listings, shows listings, radio moderator and user profiles. It was a great project but the german law made it very difficult in the end to run an internet radio and so we stopped. But the theme and plugins we had created during the time were still existing and so we decided to continue as a WordPress driven team and company.
Twitter: @svenl77