Arie Trouw is a South African Technologist, coder, and engineer known for being the founder and the Chief Executive Officer of XYO Network.

^{[0] [1]} Trout is often touted as being a precursor to Elon Musk in the tech industry.

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Trouw was born in South Africa until the age of 8 years old, he moved to the United States thereafter.

^[2] Since he was a kid, he had an interest in being an engineer and wrote software on his TRS-80 Model I. At the age of 10 years old, he developed a software using the TRS-80 Model I and continued to do so for other systems such as Atari, Apple and PC.

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He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer science from New York Institute of Technology.[6]

Trouw is the founder and the current Chief Executive Officer of the company called YXO Network which is based in San Diego.

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