ibouteek Inc. is 100% US Owned and Operated. It was founded in the Fall of 2017 by ME (Ajay Kochhar). We are a small business based out of the Washington DC metro area.
How it all started?
My journey started in the early 1990s when I came to the United States to study. I already had a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering and came here from New Delhi, India, to get my Master’s in Computer Science.
After I graduated, I worked for almost 20 years in various Information Technology (IT) Corporate roles for Fortune 500 companies.
And then a dream came true …
I have always dreamed of owning my own business. That dream came true in the Fall of 2015 when I founded Asterikx Inc. I was meeting with my ex-boss at Starbucks. She had an opportunity, and I had the “drive” and “dream”.
I wanted to start my own company.
At Asterikx, I provided Business Solutions and Strategy to Federal Government Agencies, namely, General Services Administration (GSA), and National Institutes of Health (NIH).
That was fun, but I wanted to do more! One day in the summer of 2017, I came across an article about the future of eCommerce, and that was a light bulb awakening. I started to look into the various eCommerce platforms.