Born in a Vancouver basement apartment. Forged in the classics.
Zeus was founded by a web developer with an unusual combination of obsessions: code, ancient history, and the dig site. A graduate of Computer Science and Software Systems, an amateur archaeologist, and a lifelong scholar of the classics, our founder saw in the early web something the ancients would have recognised immediately — a new agora, a new Library of Alexandria, a place where knowledge could finally move freely.
The name Zeus was chosen deliberately. Not for thunder or dominion, but for what Zeus represented in the classical world: the guarantor of order, wisdom, and the protection of guests. In Greek, the word xenia — sacred hospitality — was Zeus's domain. We build things that welcome people in.
The first project was a university website. Then another. Then a real estate CMS, a travel booking platform, a social network before social networks had a name. Each one built with the same obsessive attention to craft that drives an archaeologist to brush dust from a 3,000-year-old shard.
Computer Scientist, amateur archaeologist, and scholar of the classics. Jeph studied Computer Science and Software Systems before founding Zeus in 1998 from a basement apartment in Vancouver. He has never once stopped finding the web fascinating. Based in Vancouver, BC. Occasionally found on a dig site somewhere in the Mediterranean.
