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Peter Frans Pauwels Together with Pieter Geelen, Harold Goddijn and Corinne Vigreux I founded TomTom, straight out of University. I have always involved myself in software engineering, business development, digital strategy and product management. My focus and passion are consumer tech. I love creating great new products that make a difference and that are fun and easy to use. Doing a product well is very difficult. Doing a product very well is extremely difficult. And that is the challenge I like – creating something new that is truly meaningful for many people, out of nothing. The very best products and features are those that in hindsight are completely obvious but no one thought of before. And at TomTom we’ve brought quite a few of those to the market and we continue to do so. At TomTom we have an exciting range of technologies and content that provide a really fertile environment for innovations that matter, to mention a few: • A real-time digital global map that gets updated fr
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- • 2 investors at TomTom are tracked.
- • 2,540 investors hold the Co-Founder role in VCSift. Peter Frans Pauwels is one of them.
- • 1,044 investors are based in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands.
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