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The NeMo Trucking Software Company

In January 2026, Nestor and Moana created their own company. For the name of the company, they took the first two letters of their first names and they named it "NeMo Trucking Software Inc." For them, Nemo referred to Captain Nemo one of the heroes of Jules Verne that appeared in two of his most famous novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island.

The shares of the company were distributed as such: Nestor: 26%, Moana: 26%, RG Core Technologies: 24%, Nestor's father and mother: 24%. Nestor and Moana having 52% of the voting shares would be able to keep control of the company as long as they lived in agreement.

The company's office was on the upper floor of Nestor's house. That is where Nestor and Moana were working when they were home. Otherwise, on the road, they worked in the cabin of their trucks.

Soon after the creation of the company, they bought another hydrogen-powered self-driving electric truck that had all the desired characteristics. In reference to Captain Nemo's submarine, they immediately nicknamed the new truck the Nautilus. They even put on the left door a copy of an illustration from the XIXth century representing Captain Nemo on his submarine.


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For them, in this picture, the Nautilus represented the truck, Captain Nemo represented themselves, Nestor and Moana, and the sextant that Nemo is using represented the GPS and other positioning pieces of equipment used by the truck.

Nestor drove the truck as an independent trucker for a month so that he was comfortable with it. Then he loaded his new software and start to test it on the road, without a trailer.


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To be continued


Part 1: An Eventless Trip
Part 2: Nestor, Son of Immigrants
Part 3: Moana, a "demi-tinto" from Punaauia
Part 4: Nestor and Moana Meet Online
Part 5: First Dates
Part 6: First Trip Together
Part 7: Coder Becomes Trucker
Part 8: Trucker Becomes Coder
Part 9: Small Truck and Solar Panels

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