FivePlus Solutions, celebrated its 14th anniversary this year. We were curious to find out about the best but also the hardest moments of this period and about the company’s business directions. Alin Niță, founding member, tells us about these, but also about how an entrepreneur spends his free time, in my recent edition of Despre Oameni by XPRIMM.

“We started out as five friends, hence the name FivePlus Solutions, but today we are no longer five, we are three. We each have different skills, which allows us to focus on what we do best. We left with a lot of enthusiasm, but here we are after 14 years,” says Alin Niță.

What are the latest FivePlus projects?

“Since the pandemic came, we have identified a niche – farmers or small producers. We made a marketplace where those who want to sell online can put their goods there. We did what we knew best from a technical point of view: we created the platforms, so that we could establish the link between the farmers and the entrepreneurs who could help them in promotion. But this kind of project unfortunately did not live up to our expectations.”

However, as in everything that is not fully functional, there are also good parts, this project with farmers led to the birth of “Santa Claus online”. “Its impact is extraordinary. This platform has been taken to an area where those who want to put holiday products on our platform can make payment there. Here is a project like this during the winter holidays for children, for the diaspora, but also for those who want to make a wish to a loved one through authentic Santa Claus. It is a project we are very proud of. We have many other projects that we are proud of, but lately the focus has been that partners who have been offline until now, have the opportunity to go online”.

Although he is always anchored in business, and much of his time is spent either at the office or in the field meeting with clients, Alin NITA has learned from his wife how to dedicate time to his family and recharge his batteries.

“From an entrepreneur’s perspective there are so many things you have to do and you don’t necessarily have whole departments of people behind you so you can delegate things. I find it very hard to detach myself from all the activities that I have, and with the phone comes the email part, the tasks, the decisions that you have to make all the time and even if you are more relaxed in a certain period you are still thinking about the business. But, on the other hand, my wife pushes me to travel, to know new places, things that I’m excited about because they’re good for me,” says the FivePlus official.

“We go camping in wilder places and it’s us and the sea, or us and the mountain. We really like to combine them, and on the other hand we like to meet new people, to stay with friends, we like that very much and it relaxes us very much,” he added.

Regarding the insurance market, Alin NITA says that it is an area where the know-how acquired by FivePlus Solutions in 14 years of activity can be easily implemented. “We have customers in the insurance sphere and we can bring our contribution with what we know best: digitization, marketing, online and we just have to translate them in this market which has some specific peculiarities”.

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