Matt and Tim met in China in 2002. 10 years later, after teaching English to kindergarten kids and Coca Cola’s Chinese managers, working for a Chinese media conglomerate, and selling a online video learning company to SkillSoft, they started Nomadic.

Matt was in New York, Tim was still in China, and our first employee, Jun Ho (our current CTO) was in London. Somehow it got off the ground (thanks to investments from Matt’s Mom and the Mountain).

We wanted to make online learning better. We had no real idea of what to do with it once we’d done that. We just wanted to make something awesome. So we did. We made an awesome online program based on Sun Tzu’s Art of War (re-translated by Matt from the original Chinese text specifically for our online program, perhaps our craziest move to date).

It’s taken us another 4 or 5 years to really figure out what to do with what we’ve built. But thanks to the hard work of an incredible team (a few no longer with us, shout-out to Rounder and Amanda) we think we’re getting there.