Chris Nicholson is the founder of Pathmind, an AI startup that applies deep reinforcement learning to supply chain and industrial operations. Pathmind was founded to help businesses handle deep economic change and increase the resilience of their operations with AI. Chris oversees the company’s strategic vision and day-to-day execution.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“the difficulties are hard to even list completely. I would say the main difficulty, and I only realised it years later was I was not asking the Right questions. So a lot of people come into tech and start-ups and start-ups and they focus on what they are going to build and technologies they are interested in and shifts in trends in the market. And I would argue that they are doing it wrong. Which is really saying I was doing it wrong. And it’s a difficulty that I’ve only learned to correct over several years as an entrepreneur ”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning Book by Ernest Kurtz and Katherine KetchamFavourite Quote:
“don’t believe everything you think”
Recommended Online Resources:
Huberman Lab discusses Neuroscience: how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body controls our perceptions, our behaviours, and our health. It also discusses tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Spend 90 percent of your time thinking about the problem and the humans who have the problem and 10 percent thinking about the solution. That’s my best advice, sink into the problem, sink into the users, the customers. Hopefully you can identify with them viscerally… Make sure that problem really matters not just in the world but to you for whatever deeply personal reasons you have”…[Listen for More]
More About Chris Nicholson:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
New Romantics, Taylor Swift “I could build a castle out of all the bricks they threw at me”
Other Quotes From the Chat with Chris Nicholson:
- “I think you need to be a fighter to get things done in this world”
- “Problem, focus and user focus… You have to frame it right”
- “don’t be app focused and don’t be tech focused in tech. Be problem focused”
- “Resourcefulness…to focus on the problem. The problem that users and customers have. Just not giving up on that. You are going to be frustrated, you are going to have to learn to be wrong and have to circle back. Just keep on poking at it, feel your way around it. So, you have to be really uncomfortable with uncertainty and the frustration that goes with learning… And you have to be persistent, you have to be incredibly persistent over many years. And that means just not giving up, it means finding ways to continue to motivate yourself to come back to it or to solve new problems as you grow”
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