David Monreal and the difficult way to undertake

"Employment is a difficult path and, as you live, you can put your health into play".It is a reality that rarely comes to light and that explains in the first person David Monreal, a successful entrepreneur born in Barcelona in 1975.He is the founder of the first school of programmers in the city, ISDI Coders (formerly Skylab Coders).Last year it was recognized as the best in the world in the Switchup ranking.

Monreal wanted to put a point and apart in his professional career and, at the end of last year, the company sold to the Madrid Business School ISDI.“I was very tired of loading with the weight of all the responsibility and the doctor told me that I had to stop the rhythm.Raising a school from scratch and getting the best quality standards requires a lot of effort ”.

The entrepreneur says that the job is taken very seriously and that, therefore, it demands a very high effort to the students.For three months they study 14 hours a day.Holidays included."We almost tortured them!" He jokes.Monreal assures that the employability ratio of its students –Pan 6.000 euros for a three -month course - is 90%, compared to 60% of competitors.It also ensures that the business does not need investment in marketing because students come through mouth to mouth.

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Increase

Born in 2016 as the first center of Barcelona, it now makes the leap to Madrid and online formation

Now, the manager is satisfied with the integration of the company under the ISDI umbrella.He says he will keep the position as a long -term center director.“I am equally involved with the team and I can carry out the growth I had tried before.We open a center in Madrid and a 100% Online School ”.

But now, the entrepreneur is calmer.“I have free time to be with my son, go to run, recover hobbies like playing bass...I would also like to advise other entrepreneurs ”.

Digital Nomad, an upward species

Monreal is defined as a "stoic" entrepreneur: his five years in front of Skylab are the best example, he says.And he also comments that he is very curious."I like to learn on my own, I think there is too much titulitis".In fact, Monreal did not finish university studies.He attended the first three years of Telecommunications Engineering in La Salle until he realized that he was not interested and left him."My parents - a commercial and a doctor - lost their money, and I was wandering my time!".When leaving the race, he studied a higher degree of photography, but he did not devote himself to it.

The link with the technological world began in the early 2000s, when it entered Infojobs as a commercial.Within this company, it occupied several positions, with a one -year parenthesis during which it signed in the Vanguardia Classified Department.“In 2009 I returned to Infojobs and there I realized how much I like to innovate in product and work methodologies.I ended up leaving it in 2014, when the business was absorbed by Schibsted ”.

Trajectory

"A point came where the doctor told me that I had to stop the rhythm"

So, Monreal took a sabbatical year although he never stopped working at all.The UPC campus in Mataró signed him as an advisor to improve the link between the University and the United States.“One of the initiatives on the table was to open a program of programmers and during a trip to Miami I met the concept of programmers courses in Bootcamp format.I was fascinated by the concept and I thought it would succeed in Spain.Then, Barcelona's technology companies already had difficulty finding programmers ”.So said and done.He arrived in Barcelona, asked friends who worked in the digital sector and founded the school.

He started in mid -2016 in a coworking in the Plaza Reial.That first year had seven students and a benefit of 100 euros.Since then, he has directed the business alone, without external financing, and ensures that he has always been profitable.Now it premieres new stage and breathes calmly, finally.