Who Is Martin Alexandru?

I've loved tech and business my entire life. I was six when I started tinkering with computers. I grew up in a middle-class family in Bucharest. I loved tennis, and since we couldn't afford lessons, I went to a sports school where tennis classes were part of the school schedule. Generally, sports have been an important part of my life.

I was 12 when I was watching this TV series with my mother. One of the characters, a man in a grey suit who owned a chain of restaurants, had a strong presence and a calm demeanor I couldn't stop thinking about. "He's a businessman," my mother said.

A few days later, walking through the park with my father, I asked him what a businessman actually does. I knew what a doctor or a firefighter did. Not this. My father, an engineer, thought about it and said: "Son, I don't know. You'll have to find out for yourself. A businessman can mean a million things." I've been looking for that answer for a while. I might have come to some conclusions.

Early on I understood that the window in which you're free to experiment is short. So I took every chance I could to try things, even when I knew they were most likely to go wrong. I wanted to find out for myself.

At sixteen I found the financial markets. It started with crypto, like it did for most teenagers then, but when the hype went away I kept going: charts, the economy, how the world moves. Trading was a perspective through which I was trying to understand the world. In 2023 I passed a prop firm's two-phase evaluation and earned a funded account. That was one of the peaks of this episode. Then, as trading goes, it went to rubble, and I decided to move on.

At seventeen I gave up on the medical school direction I'd had for quite a while. I realized that ten hours of study a day for university alone wouldn't leave time for everything else I wanted to learn. So I chose international economics in Bucharest instead, because the schedule left more room to explore, and the best teachers there pushed us to do exactly that.

To learn how to talk to people, I took one of the hardest sales jobs I was told there was: selling life and health insurance as a financial consultant for one of the big insurance companies. I ranked among the top new consultants in the country in my first year, which earned me a trip to the Netherlands. After that I gained marketing experience at a Swiss pharma company and at a Series A big-data and AI scale-up.

At twenty I co-founded my first real business with a good friend: a premium car-care studio for high-end cars. It was rough, and it made me grow up. It's also where I met engineering. In May 2025 I wanted to know what it's like to call clients with an AI, so I taught myself to wire APIs together in n8n and Make and built a voice agent in two weeks. It failed fifty calls in three days and I dropped it. But it gave me the next idea: a CRM I could simply talk to, because I was sick of staring at my spreadsheets and my CRM.

One thing led to another. The idea won Startup Weekend Bucharest, became my first startup, Voice CRM, and was featured in Ziarul Financiar's ZF IT Generation series, Romania's equivalent of the Financial Times (under my name in reverse order, Alexandru Martin). Then it took me to San Francisco.

I spent the spring of 2026 there as a European Startup Embassy fellow, and I've never felt closer to my dream. I didn't agree with everything the city stands for, but I loved being around people who dare to dream. Some want money, some want influence, and some want to build a better future. In San Francisco they're all in one place. While I was there I decided to drop VoxiCRM, the version of Voice CRM I'd rebuilt. It could have become a profitable business, but it wasn't going to change the world the way I want to.

I believe we have to take care of the world together, not only of our own well-being. Every child, wherever they're born, should have an equal chance at a free spirit, a strong mind and a real path to greatness. My long-term goal is to put my whole energy into building something truly impactful for the world, something that advances us as one and lets everybody experience life to the fullest.

I also believe today is the most accessible moment in history to build something great. But a great idea nobody hears about is worth nothing to the world. You could build a time machine, or a drug that keeps people healthy until a hundred, and if no one knows it exists, it changes nothing.

As a teenager I looked down on marketing. Posting on social media platforms like Instagram felt like chasing status instead of something noble. Then I understood that marketing is how great products reach the people they're meant for, and that's a noble pursuit. That's where engineering and marketing finally came together for me.

For the next part of my life, my number one goal is to become the #1 AI SEO expert in the English-speaking world. I help great products, and the people behind them, reach new customers and become more competitive by getting them recommended by ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and other AI search tools. Some call this GEO (generative engine optimization) or AEO (answer engine optimization). I call it AI SEO, and the full scope is on my AI search optimization services page.

I work remotely with brands in the US, the UK and the EU, and in hubs like the UAE, Singapore and Australia/New Zealand, at times that suit them. If you want to see where you stand first, start with an AI visibility audit.

I only work with businesses I believe in, ones I think can have a good impact on the world, and I align with them as closely as one person can. Since I came back from San Francisco this has had my full focus, and I now do the whole package myself: I see the plan and I build it. When a project needs more hands, I bring in people I trust, and my mentors keep guiding me.

Every week I re-run your buyers' questions and show you what changed. And I tell you early when something isn't worth your money.

Take that leap of faith. Pursue greatness.

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/martin-alexandru
• Email: contact@martinalexandru.com