2006, autumn. Near the Icygen office. I walk with Nenko in the near park and talk. the aim is to try and lure him into our new founded company – Interactive media. As Nasko said – the guys is genius. I speak long and emotional – this is my way. Its hard for me to be laconic. Sales guy. The case was hard to crack, my pitch wasn’t solid. We had an idea about a service that sounded really cool, but when it comes to the hard facts, I was standing empty handed there.
Nenko was doing dull stuff at Icy all day long. The guys there knew he was good, they knew also they give him stupid things to work on. They couldn’t change much in this aspect – when you are at the tail of the food chain, you take what comes. They just couldn’t challenge or utilize Nenko’s talent better. So they paid him a decent amount of money to keep him around. Social security was sea level low, but Bulgarians are short term oriented anyway.
My pitch was going against all these odds. I could offer him 4 times less the money he got at Icy at that time. On the other hand I told him that we are going to change the world. The thing is I believed in what I say – it always makes the difference when you say something you believe in. It seams I managed to impress him somewhat. Nenko was listening carefully and at some point he took a deep breath and said: I know “the destiny favored the brave”… but he didn’t go on. He said this in Bulgarian and due to a lapse or something else, unwillingly surfacing skepticism maybe, he used the past tense of the verb “favor”. I thought for a beat “Oh my God, I’ve failed, he is not in, he thinks the destiny used to favor the brave, but doesn’t do it anymore”. But several days later Nenko was on board. And we started creating exciting things.
But somehow in what Nenko said that day, he encoded what was about to come on the way of our journey.
In Latin, the original of this sentence “the destiny favored the brave” sounds exactly like “fortuna favit fortus”.
Nasko presumably came up with the name FAVIT whole two years later, in the yearly 2008. But… wouldn’t be possible that this name, this service, this idea was floating in a meta-physical reality , embracing us all, since that very day?
Go figure…
