Anthony Minessale II is the Founder and CEO of SignalWire, an enterprise CPaaS that delivers advanced FreeSWITCH as a Service through an elastic-cloud framework and developer-friendly APIs. He has 25+ years of experience in software engineering, telecommunications and open source. In founding SignalWire, Anthony’s mission to bring the complex technology behind real-time communication to the mainstream came to light.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“With Signal Wire… Technology is an important part of it but demystifying technology was another goal for signal. So, the early challenge would probably be letting go of that and realising that I could actually scale now because the entire company is not revolving around technology any more. There is lots of other aspects. Now I have seen that as we have grown a couple of different tiers even the people that work at signal wire themselves also have to learn that lesson”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers Book by Ben Horowitz
- What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture Book by Ben Horowitz
Favourite Quote:
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step” Martin Luther King Jr.
Recommended Online Resources:
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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Make sure what you are doing is something that you want to be doing. It will make it a lot easier. Be sure it’s really what you want to be doing because it’s a key ingredient that breeds the ability to move on when it is not the best days – if you really want… Really wanting it is most of the battle”…[Listen for More]
More About Anthony Minessale II:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving isn’t for you.” Steven Wright
Other Quotes From the Chat with Anthony Minessale II:
- “Some of the stuff you would have to find out the hard way no matter what”
- “Paying attention to the obvious because it’s pretty easy to overlook it”
- “Continue to execute. It’s really easy to have ideas. If you are having an idea 1,000,000 other people simultaneously might be having the same idea was that unless you hurry up and do something about it you might if you are lucky, give yourself even a month where you did it first and that’s important. Because otherwise you could end up in the nut house feeding pigeons saying how you had all these great ideas and every one of them exists now but you didn’t do it”
- “If you pay enough attention to the world around you there is lots of information to help you”
- “If you are lucky enough to have some amazing thing that’s going to be a world changing product that you want to change into a large company you had better make sure that you can run the organisation around it because that’s equally important”
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