After the announcement of the new DPMLOL Desktop application, i had the opportunity to speak with Juliano, the founder and CEO of DPM about his journey from Zero to Hero in creating the best League of Legends analytics tool and website.
Discover his journey from writing a single line of code to building the leading League of Legends analytics tool, now partnered with Caedrel and Kammeto
Who is Juliano? Where and when did your passion for league born?
DPM Juliano: Juliano is a 24 years old French guy who dropped engeneering school to create companies!
I’ve always been dreaming about entrepreneurship, so at 21 I decided to follow my own path and I created my first company!
It was an ecological game where players could make ecological actions while playing.
It was really fun to do, and learned a lot from it, after that, I had few long months of testing new things, thinking, doubting a bit.
During that time, I played league a lot. I play league since S6, always had a good level but never enough to be pro.
While playing, I began to think that every websites I use are stale, old, bad looking, and there could be something to dig.
And this is how in January 2024, we wrote the first DPM line of code!
You mentioned that many websites felt stale, old, and bad looking , what was the exact “moment” that gave birth to DPM?
DPM Juliano: I honestly don’t remember the exact moment, but I think it happened quite naturally.
My cousin (the other co-founder of DPM) and I have a very entrepreneurial mindset.
Whenever we see something, we immediately think about how it can be improved,
I guess that’s how it started!
From a League Player to creating DPM in a little frame of time, as a fan and passionate follower of the game, how did you feel when Caedrel decided to support the project?
DPM Juliano: Well it was really quick.
We launched DPM early June 2024, and 1 month later he dmed me to join the project.
As a big fan of Caedrel, it was just unrea, I needed time to realize, was very stressed the first times we talked.
Now it’s been 1 year, the relationship is great, even if it can be hard sometimes to work with someone that big.
Even if he loves DPM and help us a lot, he obviously has tons of projects to manage,we needed some time to sync and find the best way to work together, but now it’s really perfect
After Caedrel you had Kammeto joining in, the CEO of KC, the squad you support, was it even more shocking or having already Caedrel in made you feel more confortable?
DPM Juliano: Yeah as French it was even more unreal.
I follow Kammeto since maybe 10 years, in France he’s the top 1 streamer.
So yeah it was really crazy for us, again, before DPM, I was fan of Caedrel and Kammeto.
Now I work with both of them, I’m living a dream, but now I know how to handle my emotions, and be professional when I have to, something that I struggled with in the past
I asked some opinions on DPM around to some coaches and players i know, and the general opinion is that the main contender of DPMLOL is League Of Graph, since it provides a lot of clear and precise informations, what’s your opinion on this point?
DPM Juliano: My very honest opinion is that every websites were good 10 years ago but now are really stale so we actually dont have any competitors.
But yeah League of Graph might be the most in-depth one with Mobalytics.
I think they provide good data (even if a lot of data they display are wrong), but they lack of having good design and good user experience.
And I think it’s too important nowadays, you need to have good data, and good UI/UX.
I like Blitz UI, they did a great job of modernize the ecosystem, but yeah otherwise I think all the sites have been resting on their laurels, and it’s probably too late for them now.
When are we having multi.dpmlol to finally end the era of op.gg?
DPM Juliano: It is on our todo-list!
We have good ideas of how to improve this feature! But we actually got a mega insanely long to-do list and we always add new things.
We are only 2 working on DPM, so sometimes it’s very hard to keep up the pace and with the App development at the moment, we are 100% focus on it.
But right after the app release, we will try to empty a bit our to-do list, and make this multi search!
What advice would you give to young people who want to start a career in gaming and esports?
DPM Juliano: build your own things!!
Worst case: you learn a ton, meet great people, open unexpected doors.
Best case: you build something people love. And it changes your life
Invest on yourself. Learn, build, speak to people etc.. everyone has the potential to change his life!
