Michael Peres is a software engineer, entrepreneur, journalist and podcast host. He was born and raised in Montreal, in an Orthodox Jewish home with eight siblings, and today he lives in Miami Beach. Since 2017 he has founded sixteen organizations — hosting and development companies, an SEO practice, a press wire, a book publisher, five newsrooms, and most recently a research project aimed at slowing human aging.
None of it started with a plan. It started with a kid who could not sit still in a classroom.
An Orthodox Montreal childhood
Michael was born and raised in Montreal, in an Orthodox Jewish home with eight siblings. His parents cared deeply and did their best for the family, but he felt out of sync with the world around him. The community was tight-knit, religious and sheltered from the secular world, and questioning was not exactly encouraged. From a young age he knew his mind worked differently, and that he saw things from angles other people either did not notice or did not care about.
Diagnosed at nine
He was diagnosed with ADHD at nine years old. In practice that meant daily medication, public trips to the school office for Ritalin, and the feeling that everyone could see he was the kid with a problem. He was pulled into special programs for English and math, walking out of class while the room watched. The message was subtle but constant: you are different, and not in a good way.
It was physical too. The medication left him cold, numb and detached, dragging his energy and appetite into the ground. He moved through school in a kind of trance — functioning on the surface, miserable underneath.
The turn
It changed in a math class. The room was working through parabolic equations, and Michael asked what the equation would do under more extreme parameters. What came back were eye rolls and the usual dismissal, but something in him shifted anyway. He realised he was looking at a deeper layer of the problem than most of the room, and that a good idea did not need to be understood or validated by everyone around him. It just had to work.
The sentence that ended his interest in permission.
The computer shop in his bedroom
After that he stopped waiting for school to give him permission to learn the things he cared about. In his teenage years the tinkering turned into a business: a computer repair and build shop run out of his bedroom, which repaired or built hundreds of machines for his own school and a neighbouring girls’ school. The lesson he took from it is the operating principle behind every company he has started since — one skill, applied correctly, can serve hundreds of people.
Sixteen, and off the payroll
By sixteen he had stopped taking money from his parents. In his own words: “while other teenagers went out shopping at the mall with their parents’ money, I didn’t accept a single dollar from my parents past the age of 16. Instead, I operated a computer repair shop out of my house.” He rejected classroom learning outright, showing up only for the final exams.
He credits the disability itself with the outcome: “I credit my ADHD, and the challenges that resulted from this disability, with teaching me that in order to survive in this world, I had to engineer an innovative lifestyle for myself.”
Building, fixing, shipping — long before any of it was a company.
The Road Less Traveled
Overcoming childhood setbacks & developing the mindset for breaking 9 to 5
He wrote it as small glimpses into his life rather than a victory lap. “This book is not a success story. Nor is it a book about ADHD, or even disability. This is the story of how I gained confidence and learned how to overcome the limitations that were imposed on me.”
Building.
Michael studied Computer Science at Dawson College, then Mathematics and Jewish Studies at Yeshiva University, which remains his listed academic affiliation. But the education he points to is the one he gave himself: starting as a self-taught builder, he has launched hundreds of websites and multiple mobile apps, working on minimalist design, performance, and secure, scalable infrastructure.
The first company came in June 2017: Hexa Tiger, a design and development studio. Six months later he added Hexa Cloud Services, a hosting company built out of his own frustration with slow, unreliable hosts. From there the work compounded in one direction — every company solving a problem the last one exposed. Search and reputation work became SEO For Public Figures and SEO My Company. Getting client news published became Hexa PR Wire. Running publications at scale became Scale My Publication and Scale My Podcast. Helping people finish their books became Hexa Book Services.
He wrote the second book in the middle of it. Power of Purpose opens plainly — “My name is Michael Peres. I’m a serial entrepreneur that operates more than five companies” — and lays out the difference between linear and exponential growth, how to find the skills only you have, and how to move from doing what you have to do to survive into doing what you actually want.
Hexa Tiger
Design and development studio building fast, minimalist, brand-consistent websites
Hexa Cloud Services
High-performance WordPress and application hosting, hardened security, 24/7 support
Scale My Podcast
Podcast infrastructure, editing, social assets, guest booking and reputation building
Scale My Publication
An operating system for digital newsrooms: software, workflows, monetization and audience growth
Hexa PR Wire
Press release distribution and newsroom operations, syndicating to hundreds of outlets
SEO For Public Figures
Reputation and search for individuals and leadership teams — backlinks, Knowledge Panels, on-page SEO
SEO My Company
Growth practice for startups and brands: technical audits, information architecture, content velocity
Hexa Book Services
Thesis construction, ghostwriting, packaging, design, publishing and launch strategy
The Michael Peres Podcast
Science, technology, society and entrepreneurship, in conversation with founders and researchers
JPN Miami
Jewish Professional Network Miami — a hub built on collaboration and shared values
LongevityOne
A shared repository accelerating research into slowing and reversing human aging
Five newsrooms, started from zero.
Each publication he founded runs on a single idea: combine strong editorial standards with solid technology and structure, and you can tell better stories at scale. Three of the five are listed in Google News, four carry MuckRack outlet pages, and all five carry Crunchbase organization pages.
Peres Daily
A dedicated independent organization reporting on trending national and international news — from politics and daily events to cryptocurrency, blockchain and economics.
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Israel Now
Independent reporting and commentary on Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world. Also recorded as Israel Now News.
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Her Forward
A US publication dedicated to female entrepreneurs and leaders, built to bridge the coverage gap by giving them a platform for their success stories, challenges and actionable advice.
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Breaking 9 To 5
Breaking news and coverage across the entrepreneurial landscape and the entertainment industry. Also the name of the work model he is credited with pioneering.
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Block Editorial
Timely and accurate news and insight on Web3, blockchain and cryptocurrency, with a stated commitment to journalistic integrity. The only publisher named for any of his books.
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“Michael Peres Announces the Launch of 4 News Publications” ran on Bloomberg and was carried the same day by MarketWatch, Markets Insider, Digital Journal and Yahoo.
He writes as well as publishes. His byline appears in Rolling Stone, Entrepreneur, the Times of Israel, the Jerusalem Post, Benzinga, Grit Daily and LifeHack, among 139 distinct titles on record, covering entrepreneurship, technology, science, leadership and current events. The main-site archive holds more than 1,800 articles.
The podcast.
He started The Michael Peres Podcast in January 2019, and has since recorded well over a hundred episodes with founders, physicists, clinicians, investors and operators. The format is simple and has not changed: a long conversation with someone who actually knows something, about the thing they know.
The Michael Peres Podcast
Science, technology, society and entrepreneurship. Recent guests include physicist Jesse Berezovsky, Dr. Jeffrey Bennett, Noah Kenney, Art Abal and Dr. Danielle Kelvas. On Spotify, Deezer, iHeart Radio and RSS.
Alongside the companies he invests at pre-seed and seed, writing initial cheques between $50,000 and $250,000 into software, consumer tech, fintech, martech and media infrastructure. His view is that money is the easy part: founders need a partner with engineering expertise to help navigate the build, not just capital.
What he is doing now.
In April 2025 Michael founded LongevityOne, and it has become the work he cares most about. It began with one question — if systems can be engineered for media and technology, why not for human aging? The project consolidates biology and technology research into a shared repository built to spark collaboration and accelerate the effort to understand, slow and eventually reverse aging. He leads the technical roadmap and partnerships, and is studying Biomedical Engineering for exactly this reason: to close the gap between data infrastructure and credible science.
We believe the next 15 years will transform humanity’s perception of lifespan, and we’re here to guide that shift.
He also founded JPN Miami, the Jewish Professional Network Miami, in January 2024 — a hub for Jewish professionals in the city, built on the belief that collaboration and shared values drive both personal and professional growth.
Ask him what all of it is for and the answer stays the same as it was in that math class: no one has to erase their differences to succeed. It is possible to design systems, companies and a life that work because of those differences.
Michael Peres — Miami Beach, Florida.
This is his story, and he is still writing it.
