Business in a Blog

Now that the quarter is over, I can say without a doubt that Shadrach was on of my favorite speakers of the quarter. He is the founder of CloudPWR, his 4th company so far, and really took a calculated leap of faith in deciding the direction this company was going to go. The aspect I found most inspiring about his talk was the way he viewed people, both investors and employees. The way he described the importance of treating them like an investment, something you value and respect, was really contrary to the image that had been described to me until this point of investor/employee relationships. He described the way he would take the time to talk to them, completely absent of any demands or hidden agendas, updating them on progress and details of a project they hadn't even gotten involved in yet. It was such a personal approach to what really should be a more social experience to begin with. Some of the other things he said that I particularly enjoyed was the way he described develo

It was interesting the way this class on the boom and bust was formatted because we did it in a timeline, and I never really learned much about the history behind some of these companies before. One of the things I was most surprised about, though it's something I should have probably known long ago, was that Amazon had been around for quite a while and been mocked for its ideas since the very beginning. It was funny being reminded of how big Yahoo was when I was so young, and how powerful our AOL spam disk overlords were. It's interesting hearing from somebody that was actually involved in all of that, because as a kid it just seemed like something that was happening on some other planet but we'd keep getting those free coasters anyways. The way websites popped up like IPO.com, or FuckCompany.com, seems so capitalistic and free market it's entertaining. Between Luminant Worldwide's 8 company roll-up, Wolfe writing his own check, and the fights going on during Andre