If you haven't already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Numerous developers around the world are turning into successful entrepreneurs. NLP Cloud Founder CTO Julien Salinas provides a textbook case study of a brilliant journey that is a highly repeatable blueprint to follow. Sramana Mitra: Let's start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Julien Salinas: I'm French. I live in France. I'm not located in the French Alps. I have a double degree in both business and engineering, especially computer science. I graduated 15 years ago. I initially started working as a consultant and doing product marketing. I was not very happy in my job. I started coding in my personal time until I realized that maybe it was time to start a real career in programming. That's what I did. Since then, things have been much easier for me. I did my first