Yves Darbouze

Biography

Yves Darbouze has always looked at the web as the equalizer in media. The technology created that would allow the guy with the coolest ideas to prosper and reach people on the level of the media conglomerate with the money and the power to reach the masses and control news and entertainment. This was the tool he would use to become the next Hearst or Turner or Murdoch. He literally became a developer in the mid 90's because the idea of publishing media accessible to the universe. Everything that he has done afterward has revolved around the furthering of the format. Yves spent two years teaching New Media at the Soho campus of the Pratt Institute. He simultaneously corporate trained as a Macromedia certified trainer for Globix Technologies. He achieved expert level in at least 14 different software applications. In the following years Yves privately consulted several of the top Interactive agencies right before the dotcom bust. It was then that Yves chose to start his own firm. He left his hometown of NYC to go to Miami to start his company. The idea in the beginning was he would first concentrate on the West Indies and companies that were small enough to get access to high level decision makers. After one successful try winning a bid to develop a web destination for one of the major Haitian banks Yves found that most of the companies he proposed web strategies to had no interest because their customer base were not on the internet as of yet. Yves then began pitching his services to clients he worked for in the past with other firms. First catching on with old stakeholders at BMG and Bad Boy Entertainment. Yves believed in his capabilities so much that he offered to develop the first two projects for free. The decision makers at BMG decided that Yves and his pLot team had what it takes to make the first web site for their Sean "P-Diddy" Combs clothing line SeanJohn.com. The gamble paid off for both parties because Sean John was an award winning, best of class web site. The site was also sucessful for absorbing user data with web 2.0 applications that were revolutionary for the time. pLot would ride that sucess to what they are now. Which is changing and expanding in defination everyday.