“You can’t be in two places at once,” Talal Choucair said, explaining the need for the ‘remote access virtual private network (VPN)’ he and his partner, Guillaume Baron, created when they saw the market opportunity for this kind of technology. “The tools we were using were either too complex or they didn’t fulfill our requirements, so we designed a prototype based on what we wanted to use ourselves.” After two years of aggressive development, Choucair and Baron devised a product that not only satisfies a personal, professional, and market need, but also indeed allows the user to virtually be in two places at once. March 2008 saw the commercial launch of WallCooler (“it literally cools firewalls,” Choucair pointed out), and, over the past six months, the unique remote access-VPN solution has attracted tens of thousands of users and has a major presence in over 110 countries. “Our revenue is doubling
