Joshua was born in the Netherlands in ‘87, where he lived until the age of 13. He then spent 9 years in Switzerland, Geneva, before moving to London. He started his first business when he was 16, building websites for friends of his parents which quickly grew into a network of about 35 high-school-age students building websites for some big businesses (including private banks) in Geneva.

He dropped out of university (business management) in Geneva twice, before finally finishing a Computer Science degree at King’s College in London. During his time there, he was co-founder & CEO of Targetz, a real-time, community-based marketplace which ran out of money about a year into the venture. After university, he co-founded SuperAwesome as Chief Product & Technology officer, building the company that defined the #kidtech space with a mission to build a safer internet for kids. He then left his full-time position at the company in early 2020 just before its acquisition by Epic Games, focusing his efforts on the learning & education space as co-founder & CEO of Mindstone today.