-: My career, I think is a result
of being a Liberal Arts major,
has been a non-linear career.
I zig and I zag,
and I kind of follow the puck to where I find
that it's gonna be interesting next.
And my first job out of Temple
was with an insurance company
that said, "We only hire
"Liberal Arts majors because you're humble enough
"to say you don't know anything about business,
"and we wanna train you our way."
And I've taken that
and been able to leverage it
through my career choices by taking new assignments,
taking a project that didn't seem like
it was in my wheelhouse, but maybe a boss
or a mentor thought that I had some qualities
that would make me effective on that project.
Trying to be perfect at something before you go live.
Spending too much money
before you validate whether the platform's gonna work.
Having the most perfect marketing materials
before you have somebody to take them out to.
I think that's always a risk.
I've worked with several startups in my career
and they wanna be perfect before they go out of the box.
And they waste a lot of money that way
before they test and validate whether or not
they even have a concept that has legs in the marketplace.