Former Microsoft, General Motors, and STATS leader, Kirk Marple is the CEO and Founder of Unstruk Data – a company that is building the industry’s leading Unstructured Data Warehouse for automating data preparation via metadata enrichment, integrated compute, and graph-based search. Unstruk Data has raised $3.5M in seed funding.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Bill Gates co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation
When business started difficulties overcame:
“a lot of it was really not knowing what I didn’t know. I had read a lot of books at the time just about start-up culture and like a seven-day MBA book and things like that. But it really is such a learning experience when you really think you know part of it but then you realise you were only touching the top of the iceberg. So, I think there is so much to learn around sales and marketing and the other side from being a career engineer”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer’s Guide to Launching a Startup Book by Rob WallingFavourite Quote:
“Hope is not a strategy”
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Just keep at it. Grit, persistence, all of those common terms now I think are really so key. I mean knowledge, going to the best school, all of those kinds of things matter to some extent… That’s the differentiator, not giving up and just continually learning and being able to apply that learning is key”…[Listen for More]
More About Kirk Marple:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.” Joan Rivers
Other Quotes From the Chat with Kirk Marple:
- “a lot of it is who you know and having a lot of contacts. I think if I’d known that may be a little better in my first company… We looked for money but ended up just continued to bootstrap. It really hears having a good set of contacts, a good network around you. LinkedIn makes that so much easier these days ”
- “Creativity and really just looking for… patterns and seeing and learning from osmosis. So, I try to be a sponge for all kinds of information that I try and learn from”
- “Persistence has always been my… I think getting kicked and not totally being down, I think that the number one ”
- “I wanted to go and work for some different companies just to learn what I didn’t know, get exposed to different things that I hadn’t touched before. So, I think you can kind of anticipate that change a bit”
- “a lot of companies when they get money in the bank, they kind of forget those bootstrapping mindset. And I think that something that I’ve tried to keep top of mind”
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