Guess Speaker: Shadrach White

Today, we had another guess speaker Shadrach who owns CloudPwr, a cloud computing services company based in Tacoma. His talk was great because it was short and to the point. When he was telling his story about how his second business that sold vintage basketball tees, I thought it was awesome that they had DMX wearing their product. The point of telling us about this business was to tell us that even if you do everything right such as having crazy good marketing and a solid focused mission, all of that doesn't mean anything if you don't have your finances in place. He called it being a revenue hawk. Since his company wasn't able to manage their money properly. Somewhere through his talk, he talked about character when dealing with business. He was able to leverage his previous business connections and reputation with the government agencies as customers for CloudPwr. This made think about how important it is to have a good reputation because that is how doors will open for you in the future. No matter it be a job or being a business owner, "your word is your bond," is how Shadrach put it. I really liked the fact that he would rather hire someone with good character that wasn't as smart or talented over someone who has a shady character but was super smart and talented. I consider myself as someone with good character but not super smart. It's refreshing to hear this kind of thinking since the places that I would like to be hire really place a huge emphasis on technical aptitude even before behavioral.