..NEXT.
I've worked directly and indirectly with many tech CEO's, CTO's and CIO's in the last twelve years...
The successful ones all had two things in common: They could clearly see why and how things are happening now and had very good understanding, and most importantly, a reality grasp of what's next and could model it either financially, scientifically and socially.
That's it.
On a credantial related topic... , ppl often ask me two things.. "what do you do exactly" (common ppl) and "why are u so 'buffed' for a 'geek' " (industry ppl) ...
First answer is, I am an Electronic Engineer, I've designed hardware and software for the last 15 years; from working as a student at Lockeed Martin on 3D Visual database processing and generation for flight simulators, to working on the patriot platform and Iridium program at Motorola (aka UMTS and later on the v60), to more recently reshaping parallel processing, cloud computing and "Big Data" at Teradata and GreenPlum, a couple of IPOs along the way (Informatica, DecisionPoint, Crossworlds and SeeChain)...
Second answer is, and that's where it becomes relevant for the schmoes and potentially threatening for some... I'm "buffed" because I was born this way, by 18yo I was already 205lb with a 32" waist and barely training, not that impressive in general but kinda noticeable at 5'10"... so I quickly realized that it gave me an edge; attention and "respect" (which I never really understood)
That's what I tend to prove at the NPC Excalibur 2011.
How does that related to bb? Arnold, Joe & Joe, the Nautilus douche, the Di Laurentis, Stallone, Nasser... Ron Avidan... all did the same..
I would like to dedicate this thread to two great men on getbig; the first one recently passed away; I'm sadden I couln't make it today to honor him, mechanical problems, I'm stuck in Ocotillo Wells until tomorow. GodSpeed Keith. Sorry TU & Co. I really wanted to get back on time this morning.
The second is a once troubled individual who recently decided to "turn" his life around, explore the power of his intellect and inspire others; none other than Mr Rehaluk himself. The power is on his lap and in his heart and he knows it.
GodSpeed.