The Company
The Jimdo founders: Matthias Henze, Fridtjof Detzner, Christian Springub (left to right)
Who is Jimdo?
Christian (25), Fridtjof (25) and Matthias (30) are the founders of Jimdo. But that's, of course, not it. We are really proud of our team - it's a lot of fun to develop Jimdo together with these guys.
What’s the story behind Jimdo?
In 2004 we founded NorthClick on an old farm. Without a cent we moved in at Fridtjof's home and developed the online-software that now is the core of Jimdo. NorthClick distributes this software to small and medium sized enterprises who can use the software for updating their websites really easily. Short after the founding we won a business plan competition, which gave us approximately 20,000 USD.
In combination with some basic agreements and our first customers we had enough money to move to Hamburg and rent our first office. Since then, we already moved into a bigger office and have a rising number of customers and colleagues!
During the last four years more and more of our friends asked us whether they could use our system for private stuff. We were so fascinated by the cool pages they created! Some used the system for pages about themselves, three guys used it to document their sailing trip from Germany to Sydney, some to promote their bands...and the feedback was just unbelievable!
That's when the idea was born to give Pages to the People!
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