Q: Modisoft was started when you were operating a convenience store and just trying to make ends meet. Can you describe how the company was founded and why?

In 2005, I founded Modisoft in the back office of my small convenience store; it started as a passion project. As the store grew, manual paperwork, biweekly payroll and inventory management started to become overwhelming, and that’s when I realized I needed a better process. So, I taught myself coding and developed Modisoft, a back-office software that allowed me to streamline my inventory, eliminate paperwork, and make sure my employees were paid accurately and on time. That was always important to me. It changed the way I ran my store. The software worked so well that I started offering it to my friends and other c-store owners for free. Eventually, a few of the owners sent me unsolicited checks to pay for using it, simply because the software had made their business so much easier to manage.