After graduating, my fellow Christ Church alumnus Wojciech Woznicki (2014, Modern History & Politics) and I decided to set ourselves a challenge.

Having grown up in diverse backgrounds, in families with strong opinions, we saw that the problem was often not having different opinions, but how they were communicated. If you took out the charged language and personal insults, people weren’t as far apart as the conversation made it seem. 

Our mission from that point onwards was to quantify and display opinions in a way that helps people come together - and that is the core mission that defines quester.

We live in a world where people struggle to understand each other and where they are coming from. There is too much information and too many opinions, so we built quester to present them in a fun and easily digestible way.

We decided that just as Google had previously organised the world's information, quester would organise the world’s opinions. quester’s mission is as bold as it is simple: to fundamentally change the way the world communicates and shares ideas.

After working together with our other two co-founders, we built and grew the first iteration of quester, allowing us to raise $2m from both angel investors and VCs to help us further develop our vision.

We now employ 17 people, all working together to give quester users recommendations they trust, from communities they love.

Looking back, our experiences at Christ Church, not just in an educational sense but a pastoral one too, were essential in getting quester to where it is today. While there we created a database of student societies and managed to get attendance at events to up to two thousand students a term. 

We can now see how the seed of quester, and our future success with the business, was planted and nurtured there.

It’s currently an exciting time for the business, with monetisation launched and a future fundraising round upcoming. quester may well now be a business based in London, but it was very much formed in the quad beneath Tom Tower.