I am a person who doesn’t look back too often, I don’t have regrets. I’ve been at companies that have been acquired, I’ve been at companies that have gone out of business, I view it all as a step in my development, in my learning. It’s a journey, for sure. When I was at Cupertino Electric, I had been in construction for 13 years, but I always viewed myself as a tech lawyer. But I knew it was going to be very hard for me to get back into the tech world.
So, I talked to somebody who had been a sponsor of mine. He offered me a job. I thought the opportunity was very interesting, it was in hardware, ultra-high capacity, laser radio hybrid, telecommunications equipment. But I was also very philosophical about it, I said, even if this doesn’t work out, it is my on ramp back into tech. And it didn’t work out, even though the technology was amazing, I think the investors were tired of the pivoting, and did not want to continue funding the company.
So, from there, I went to a cyber security company called Bromium, and again, I was philosophical about it, I thought the founders have an amazing track record, I’m hoping that the company will be successful. But if nothing else, cybersecurity is an amazing field to get into, and I will learn a lot about the industry. So, I went to Bromium, and from Bromium, I got a reach out from the CEO of Chronicle to have coffee at X.
And I never would have gone from Cupertino Electric to X, it had to be that journey. So, I look at it as it’s an opportunity for me to progress, maybe not always in this up into the right, but it can be a little bit meandering.
