Hello, I’m Pauls, co-founder and CEO of Orbit8. As a kid I was always passionate about engineering and space, but following my parents advice, went to study economics and business. I was working as a manager in several companies and had very good sales results. Yet, I still had a feeling as walking in the wrong shoes until I accidentally learned about Mars 1 mission. I returned from astronaut training a different person and started my education business. I am happy with my career now but it was a long road to find my perfect place.

My knowledge of astronaut selection helped to realize that all people have unique talents, abilities and  values that dictate the most optimal career directions. At Orbit8 we are the first to build all-in-one (connecting kids-educators-employers) tool based on individual potential in scientific, automated and future labor market oriented way for early ages. Our secret sauce is in methodology how to combine existing scientific approaches in one and then to translate it into meaningful education and career recommendations.

Everybody is concerned about career opportunities and there are more or less simple tools to find out the options. Yet, none of them is able to build this based on individual natural potential (called – Attributes)  but rather based on short-term career goals and labor market opportunities. Imagine – if Google has all data about persons digital behavior, Orbit8 is going to have data about what the person really is. This has a huge potential to build life-time value out of this – education, labor market, personal life, product placement, and more.