I Didn’t Build Perseuss Alone. I Was Coached Into It.

Before Perseuss, before cartonization algorithms and late-night customer calls, I spent five years learning how to fall.

Every afternoon, six days a week, three hours a day, I trained under a coach who didn’t just drill me on form. He taught me how to trust. In him. In myself. In the process.

When I started, he was terrifying. Over time, that changed. He became a guide. A mentor. Then a best friend. The older brother I never had.

There’s a photo from 2012, right before and right after my high bar routine. That routine used to haunt me. The dismount was a 10-foot fall with a 50 percent success rate. The other 50 percent? You crash flat on your back in front of a full crowd.

But I kept doing it. Because I knew even if I botched it, my coach was there. Ready to catch me, reset the bar, and push me again.

P.S. I did stick that dismount. Hence the smile in the second pic.

And here’s the thing: Building a startup feels exactly like that dismount.

You leap. You twist. You don’t always land clean.But when you’ve got someone in your corner, someone who believes in your ability to figure it out, it changes everything.

It stops being scary. It starts becoming a craft.

At Perseuss, we’ve had our fair share of high bars. Failed demos. Burned cash. Cartonization logic that broke mid-deployment. But we always had each other. Co-founders, advisors, customers who gave us a second shot.

If you're building something, go find your coach. And if you’re a parent, put your kids in gymnastics. Not because they’ll go pro. But because they’ll learn how to fall. And more importantly, how to get back up.

About Author

Tomas David Ye is the Founder and CEO of Perseuss, a logistics software company bringing Amazon-level fulfillment intelligence to the rest of the supply chain. Before building software for warehouses, Tomas was a competitive youth gymnast who represented the Czech Republic at the Junior Olympics. Today, he channels that same discipline and focus into helping warehouse operators solve real-world problems with practical, AI-powered solutions.