How one tech visionary’s lifelong obsession with building purposeful tools is reshaping how companies sell, communicate, and connect in the age of AI.
There is a certain kind of mind that does not wait for the future to arrive. Paul Pacun has been living ahead of the curve since 1969, the year, by his own reckoning, he fell in love with technology and never looked back. Across nearly six decades, he has channelled that fascination into something rare: a body of work that consistently anticipated where the world was going before the world knew it was heading there.
Today, as Co-Founder and CTO of Meiotic Inc., the company behind vablet, a pioneering Sales Enablement and content distribution platform, Pacun is known simply as “Mr. Vablet.” But that title only captures the latest chapter. The full story is richer, stranger, and far more instructive.
From IBM Chips to the Open Web
Pacun’s career began not in a startup garage but in one of the most demanding institutions in computing. While still an undergraduate, he landed an internship conducting chip research at IBM, a formative experience that stamped into him the discipline of building things that had to work, not just sound good in a pitch.
By 1985, he had founded Micro Computer Consultants, his first IT consultancy, and was already moving through an eclectic range of institutions: Club Med, AST Research, Deloitte Consulting, and CBRE, accumulating a breadth of experience that few technologists of his era could match. In 1997, when the commercial internet was still a novelty, he launched TravelBug, one of the first travel websites ever built. Three years later, he was CTO of Tradebonds, helping construct the first bond trading platform accessible to retail consumers on the web.
What threads these episodes together is not a single industry or technology but a mentality: find the problem, build the solution, move. Pacun calls himself “broad and deep,” someone who attended a famously rigorous engineering college and has never lost the tinkerer’s spirit he carried out of it.
April 4th, 2010: The Day vablet Was Born
On April 3rd, 2010, Apple released the iPad. The following morning, Paul Pacun began designing vablet. That 24-hour turnaround says everything about why he is more of a visionary than a technologist. Most of his team today were hired as interns from UCI at the time, putting shape to his vision with key skills and strategies that come from a collaborative environment, rather than a textbook.
“The iPad was a game changer,” he explains. “A computer that could last all day, was light, and was purpose-built for displaying rich, interactive multi-media – not just content.” Pacun saw immediately what most enterprise software companies would take years to recognise: the tablet was not a consumer toy; it was an enterprise sales tool.
The inspiration, as so often with Pacun, was personal. His mother had spent her career as the sales leader for Richilene, the fashion design label she founded with his father. He had grown up watching her navigate the relentless challenge of presenting products and closing deals on the road, armed only with physical catalogues and relationship instinct. He understood what a sales professional needed. He built it.
His own daughter’s studies at NYU film school added another dimension. Pacun wanted a streamlined way to load and view large video files on a tablet in a corporate context. The concept crystallised into vablet, short for “video tablet,” which launched on the App Store in December 2010, before sales enablement even existed as a recognised software category.
The Pivot That Made the Platform
A month after launch, Pacun ran headlong into the realities of healthcare sales. His original vision, tablets in doctors’ waiting rooms educating patients with videos, was not going to provide the desired growth; though he clearly understood the value of edutainment. So they quickly focused sales on medical device and other heavily regulated industries. Still impacting doctors, but at scale, albeit with a longer sales cycle. The first medical device company, NobelBioCare started in January of 2011, and other Fortune 500 companies followed as early adopters, now his companies support major companies like Abbott, Baxter, Angelini Pharma, Johnson & Johnson. The cycle is long and the gatekeepers many, but these companies are improving the health of many which is his goal.
Rather than grind against the model, Pacun pivoted to the companies within his initial industry pipeline, those selling into healthcare, and stayed there. It is the kind of clean, unsentimental decision that distinguishes builders from dreamers. The result was a platform that earned a Hot Vendor award from Aragon Research and a reputation that now spans life sciences, financial services, and enterprise sales globally.
Building for AI and Knowing When to Unplug
As AI transforms how content is created and distributed, vablet sits in an unusually strong position. The platform enables companies to test AI-generated content on any physical mobile device in under a minute – a differentiator that matters enormously in enterprise sales, where the gap between what looks polished on a laptop and what actually performs in the field can be significant.
For teams deploying AI content at scale, that kind of real-world validation is critical for his customers to maintain their own competitive edge.
Meiotic Inc. also carries a sustainability mission that pre-dates the current green technology moment: helping companies reduce their carbon footprint through smarter, lighter digital content delivery. In an era when every enterprise is scrutinising its environmental commitments, Pacun has been thinking about this problem for years.
Yet for all his enthusiasm about what technology can do, Pacun is candid about what it cannot replace. In a world of permanent connectivity and relentless digital noise, he argues that the most underrated skill in business, and in life, is the ability to stop, step back, and simply be present.
“Technology is evolving so rapidly,” he observes, “that it is important to stop and smell the roses; to get offline in order to get a fresh take on what is missing.”
From a man who has spent forty years at the bleeding edge of innovation, that is not a contradiction. It is wisdom earned.
What Comes Next
Ask Pacun about the future and the ambitions come quickly.
Growing vablet
He wants vablet to become a recognised name in enterprise sales enablement.
Yonderly
He is quietly developing Yonderly, a stealth-mode venture still under wraps. It targets anyone who creates content with AI but needs to be able to test quickly across phones, tablets, computers and browsers.
A Mission Beyond Business
He holds one aspiration that feels, in the most Pacun-like way, both audacious and completely sincere: he is building a smartphone-based tool capable of detecting malaria.
In regions where diagnostic infrastructure is scarce, a mobile device that could identify a life-threatening disease at the point of care could save tens of thousands of lives in an instant.
For Pacun, this is not a philanthropic detour from his work in enterprise technology; it is the clearest expression of the principle that has guided everything he has ever built: technology should solve the problems that matter most at scale.
Conclusion
Since 1969, Paul Pacun has been the person in the room who already knows what comes next. Based on the track record, it would be unwise to bet against him.
To follow his work and stay updated on the future of Sales Enablement and AI content distribution, connect with Paul Pacun on LinkedIn and explore vablet’s platform to see where enterprise content is headed next.
About Paul Pacun
Paul Pacun is Co-Founder and CTO of Meiotic Inc., the company behind vablet, a Sales Enablement and AI content distribution platform serving enterprise clients across life sciences, financial services, and beyond.