We never set out to create a green tech company, or really, a company at all — it was a classic case of "it just happened."
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Sammy, a recent college graduate (who would later become the founding member of Terrabyte) was working his 9 to 5 (a cushy web design position in financial tech) when he realized he wanted to do more with his life. He had always been fascinated with the planet and had a passion for design, yet he found himself creating websites for banking platforms. He had seen other artists take part in Design-365 challenges — where the artist would create a design every day for a year — and decided to create one of his own. However, on top of creating a design everyday, he would pair it with a fact about our natural world. It was this decision that gave birth to Pixel Planet Today, a project that lives on well after that first year of designs.
As Sammy carried on creating Pixel Planet Today posts, he continued to come up with other ideas for how he could impact others and help save the planet. The second project for the team, Pinekeepers, aims to turn trees saved in-game into trees being planted in real life. The game is still in development, but the team loves sharing news about its progress on its social media channels and in the <little-bytes> newsletter.
In looking towards the future of their environmental ventures, Sammy and the team decided that it just made sense to create a green tech company that could harbor all of the projects. The name, Terrabyte, plays off the word 'terabyte' (a large amount of computer data) to also include the latin word for Earth,'Terra'. And turning computer data into planet-benefitting actions? That's what it's all about.