Michal Truban

[1] Michal Truban founded Websupport, a web hosting company, as a high school student for his mother's business.

[4] In 2016, Truban published his first book titled Support: Ako vybudovať úspešný biznis, aj keď robíte jednu chybu za druhou (lit.

Minority shares in the company were also sold by co-owners Pavel Stano and Ivan Štefunko, with whom Truban co-founded Progressive Slovakia.

[8] Truban joined Progressive Slovakia in 2016 while also becoming a member of the board together with Zora Jaurová, Ivan Štefunko, and Martin Dubéci.

[10] One year later, a survey of electoral preferences by the Focus agency measured him at 5.3%, which would exceed the quorum for entry into the National Council of the Slovakia for the first time.

[13] Based on a coalition agreement between Progressive Slovakia and Democrats from July 2019, Truban was leader of the joint candidate during the 2020 parliamentary elections where he received 75,962 votes.

[23] Truban was accused of promoting drug use based on a recorded speech, which contained a mention about editing the "blackhole" website to include more white.