![]() ![]() The software has evolved dramatically over the years and substantially expanded in scope and capabilities. Now we’ve sold roughly 2.5 million licenses of NXPowerLite Desktop, which we are utterly humbled by, it’s a huge number. We were pleasantly surprised a week later when he came back and bought 10, then completely blew us away when he bought 100 licenses the month after! That’s when we realized we were building something that people really wanted, something important. On Launch day we sold a single license to a gentleman called Stewart McKnight from PepsiCo, which was very exciting for us. We figured that there must be an easier way… and later that year NXPowerLite was born. He had spent a painful morning hand-optimizing all of the images in his presentation to make it small enough to send to his colleagues in the US. The idea to make PowerPoint compression software came after chatting with a client. At the time Neuxpower was a digital marketing agency, so the first version of NXPowerLite was a side project. When we first built NXPowerLite Desktop back in 2001 email bandwidth limits were incredibly tight, so creating a product that quickly made large PowerPoint files small enough to slip under the radar netted us some very excited and appreciative customers. Can you reminisce a bit about the journey so far? Geetesh: There are several file compression products, but NXPowerLite was the original PowerPoint compression product, and it still works seamlessly with PowerPoint and also other Microsoft Office file formats. In this conversation, Mike explores NXPowerLite retrospectively and looks at the near future. Their commercially-available file optimization software NXPowerLite compresses PDF, Microsoft Office and JPEG files simply and effectively by up to 90%, making them easy to email as attachments. Neuxpower custom-builds both stand-alone applications and add-ins that enhance existing software such as Microsoft Office. Mike Power is the founder and Managing Director of Neuxpower, a software solutions company based in the UK.
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