This week we had our guest speaker, Shadrach White, come and
speak to us. He is the founder of CloudPwr, a Tacoma-local company that focuses
on offering cloud computing services to government agencies. I personally enjoyed
Shadrach’s talk the most out of everyone we listened to. I’m not sure if this
was because he had such an interested story developing into who he is today, or
just because he is simply enjoyable to listen to. His words about where he
began really surprised me. The fact that one day he realized he did not want to
work a 9-5 job his whole life, and just got up and changed that is incredible.
This is a huge barrier I think for a majority of people who haven’t become
entrepreneurs yet so it was inspiring to hear from someone firsthand. I also
really resonated with Shadrach when he spoke about being a “revenue hawk”. I
think this is something I have innately built inside me, because I always get
hung up on how the finances will work out, or how we will make money, etc every
time I think about starting a business with my friends. It was good to hear
that this tendency I have to focus on this is rightly so. Although money is not
everything in the business, without it you go nowhere. I also was really
inspired to hear how strongly he believed in properly paying his debts, even if
he might have been able to weasel out of them like his ex-partner did. Those
kinds of core values and morals are becoming harder to find these days. I hope
that one day when I start my company, I have people like Shadrach by my side.
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