I want to create and run a company that makes high-tech consumer electronics. The kind that people ooh at. Apple is too cliché to use as the example… but kind of like Apple.
There are a number of reasons for this:
1) I get to work with the smartest engineers in the world because a company that pushes limits and solves interesting problems is a magnet for people who solve huge challenges.
2) I get to scratch my own itch at the highest level. I love gadgets, I know what I want them to do, I’m going to make them do those things.
3) I get to hang out with the other brilliant entrepreneurs. Because high tech is sexy and everyone on top knows each other and they have their cigar-less cigar clubs. And they’re individually super-capable and can act on ideas that affect millions of people without regard to the limitations of a high initial cost. This is the group that brings impact to life.
3b) I love earning the respect of those I respect. Being considered an equal of someone I consider superior to me is a fulfilling compliment, and it’s a big part of why I’m loving this summer so much. I feel like I’m viewed as someone who will grow into a much bigger role. Many of my role models create companies in Silicon Valley; it would be nice to join their ranks.
4) Impatient, quick, and intuitively decisive, I love making snap decisions, finishing the job, and moving on. Iteration is in my blood. That’s a gene created for high-tech.
5) I have no problem talking to people who are much more powerful than myself, and I don’t understand fear of public speaking. I could have a conversation with Obama and it wouldn’t even give me goosebumps. If he told me at the end that I was now in charge of solving a cool problem, however, my brain would light up.
Where does someone start on that path without a best friend who’s a brilliant electrical engineer? I know it requires a ton of cash and I need to meet the top electrical engineers and programmers (the kind that create the tools that great engineers use), but for now I’m just going to get involved in the venture community and grow my Silicon Valley network.
How are you going to change the world? Which subset of the 6-point-whatever billion people out there are you targeting? Who will tell their grandchildren about the work you did? When I’m ghostwriting your autobiography, where are the meat and carrots?
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