Simone Di Somma is Founder and CEO at Askdata, a startup specialized in the application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve how enterprises consume Analytics. Before founding Askdata, Simone worked at Philip Morris and Hewlett-Packard across Europe, Middle-East and the US with a primary focus on Advanced Analytics. Simone has been a passionate speaker at various events about the benefits of AI and how this technology will transform the way enterprises do their business.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
None Specific
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the lack of money, the lack of funding was the obstacle that we had to overcome. And we solve this through sales. So we just started selling from day one”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
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- High Output Management Book by Andrew Grove
Favourite Quote:
Not being tense but ready.
Not thinking but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible.
Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come.” Bruce Lee
Recommended Online Resources:
Financial Times – News, analysis and comment from the Financial Times, the world’s leading global business publication
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“believe in yourself and at the same time being able to assess yourself. So you have to believe but at the same time always try to understand if you are positioning in the right way and you are proceeding in the right direction. So believe but at the same time believe with some criticism. So being able to every week, every day to evaluate. Am I doing good, am I available to all the elements to succeed – you have to say something. So don’t be a slave… And let down by your own ego”…[Listen for More]
More About Simone Di Somma:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.” Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle Corporation
Other Quotes From the Chat with Simone Di Somma:
- “life is always connecting dots”
- “you should always try to excel”
- “life is always about learning because you learn every single day. Definitely you could always do things in a better way because there is a learning curve. But the learning curve is important also to make a product for an organisation much more mature over time. So I think that’s part of the learning curve. It’s something structural, it’s normal and it’s beneficial for everyone there is sometimes to understand and to propagate new good habits across your organisation but at the same time we live in a world with so much competition that the only valuable rule is that you have to reduce this learning curve as much as possible…”
- “Motivational, keep the motivation of the team up”
- “be consistent because today with all this complex world everything is relative in this world of ideas and opinion. If you keep doing the same thing with a consistency then you will succeed… Always do the same thing with the same quality”
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