From Sleeping Under Bridges to Leading an International AI Tech Company: Mohamed Deramchi's Story

In June 2025 WWG's founder and CEO Mohamed Deramchi was the guest of episode 18 of "Abbiamo Sempre Fatto Così", the podcast by Fattor Comune, in a conversation titled "In the journey, what matters is who you become". He told a story that is rarely told in company profiles: building his first computer from scrap parts, sleeping under bridges, and the faith and resilience that carried him from there to founding and leading an international technology company that now builds AI for its clients. This page, published then and updated in 2026, introduces the episode, draws out what the story says about how WWG works, and links the pages where that way of working is documented.

TL;DR

• The episode is a personal story, not a company pitch: the first computer from scrap parts, the hardest years, and what faith and resilience meant in practice.
• The title of the podcast, "we have always done it this way", is the phrase WWG has long said it does not like; the episode explains why.
• Two ideas connect the story to the company: that principles are what you keep when everything else is gone, and that a startup is a mindset before it is a type of company.
• The way of working that came out of that story is documented in WWG's pages on its values, its brand and its social commitment, linked below.

What is the episode about?

It is about a journey, and about the person it produced. Mohamed Deramchi was invited to share a real story: how he built his first computer from scrap parts, how faith and resilience helped him through years that included sleeping under bridges, and how he went on to create a company with a global footprint that today applies AI to its clients' businesses. The host's title, "in the journey, what matters is who you become", sums up the angle: not the destination but the person shaped along the way.

The podcast's name, "Abbiamo Sempre Fatto Così", means "we have always done it this way", and it is the phrase WWG has been saying it dislikes since its 2021 rebrand: the episode is, among other things, a conversation about why. The full episode is embedded at the bottom of this page.

What does the story say about how WWG works?

Two things that appear throughout the company's pages. The first is that principles are what you keep when everything else is gone: in WWG's first podcast Mohamed put it as "if you lose your principles, you lose everything", and the personal story is where that sentence comes from. The second is that a startup is a mindset before it is a type of company: staying small, quick and ambitious even while growing, which is the idea behind the company's brand promise, be small, be quick, think big, told in the article on the WWG trademark.

The story also explains choices that would otherwise look like corporate social responsibility boilerplate: training and employing engineers in Algeria for years, donations during the 2020 health emergency, projects with schools and associations, and the decision in 2023 to become a benefit corporation and write common-benefit purposes into the statute. The person who slept under bridges built a company that, by statute, has to account for what it does for people other than its shareholders.

Who should listen?

Anyone who leads a team or a company and wants a reminder that resilience is a practice rather than a trait, founders at the hardest point of their own journey, and people who want to understand the company behind the software before they work with it. It is the third of three conversations WWG has published: the first is WWG's first podcast on principles and partner choice, the second is with Chief Innovation Officer Oleksii Sytar on how AI changed WWG's go-to-market.

Want to meet the team that came out of this story? Write to a WWG engineer at business@wwg.it.

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