Nordine El Ouachmi on the road to success

“If I don’t do it myself, who will?”

Nordine El Ouachmi is speaking from experience. Born in Montpellier’s La Paillade district, his school attendance was not always exemplary. Without any type of diploma, he created an industrial maintenance and cleaning company when he was 21. He then expanded his activity to include office planning and got involved with real estate. In 2004, he founded Bureaux and Co in the Parc 2000 business park. The company specialized in shared office space and co-working. Two years later, he founded Burostation, a startup that was incubated at Montpellier BIC and Station F in Paris. Burostation provides a digital tool that cross-references supply and demand for office space co-leasing to optimize the use of available facilities.

At age 39, the self-made Montpellier businessman keeps building successes. With two million euros in revenue and about 20 employees, he recently increased the company’s capital equity to over one million euros and is expecting the company to grow significantly. He feels that his commitment is an obvious choice:

“It is incredibly important! As someone who came from an underprivileged neighborhood, and who knows how hard it can be to obtain an internship or create a business activity, I feel that if I don’t do it myself, who will?”