Welcome Tim, and thank you for taking the time to give us a peek into who you are. First off, could you please introduce yourself?
âMy name is Tim Hanssen, I am the founder, CTO, and tech lead at Prepr. I am 33 years old, born and raised in The Netherlands, currently living in Amsterdam.â
Could you explain what Prepr is, and what you do within the company?
âPrepr is a headless CMS, build on graph technology, that you can use to personalize content experiences. Within the company, I manage the development team and I take care of the daily operations. Make sure everything runs smoothly.â
How did Prepr start and where did you gain the experience running a company like Prepr?
âIt all started as a hobby project for a company I was working for at that time. We needed a content management system that was completely connected from the front-end, fully API-based. Thatâs when we developed the first version of Prepr CMS. We didnât have any knowledge about this kind of CMS yet, as it didnât exist. It was such new technology there wasnât much information about it, the only way to develop and improve was through trial and error. But we learned a lot along the way.â
If you had to explain Prepr to someone outside of the industry, in simple words, how would you describe it?
âI always say: âif you open an app, everything you see, all the data you see, it comes from our systems. Most people wonât know content comes from Prepr, as weâre more behind the scenes. But if I wanted to explain it to my grandparents, I would probably tell them that if they wanted to watch something back on an app, then itâs probably through Prepr.â
