Andrea Goulet is the co-founder and CEO of Corgibytes, a company that remodels software for clients so it’s more modular, flexible, and responsive to business needs. Instead of re-writing code to design a new website, Andrea’s company takes old code and remodels it – saving the client time and money. Andrea is also a working mom and can speak to how to balance that with a fulfilling career.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
Joel Gascoigne founder of Buffer
When business started difficulties overcame:
“I came into work one day and half my department was laid off and my friends who I had lunch with all the time just didn’t have a job anymore, that happened at the bottom of the recession so there was this illusion of stability but at the same time it was more stable being an entrepreneur so finding that balance of stability and autonomy and where I am on a given day”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead Book by Brené Brown
Favourite Quote:
“Do in your heart what you feel to be right, you’ll be criticised anyway”
Recommended Online Resources:
- Free Code Camp – Learn to code with free online courses, programming projects, and interview preparation for developer jobs
- Courage Works – is a research-based program developed on four key beliefs and grounded in Brené’s fifteen years of research on courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy.
- Brave Leaders Inc – help individuals, teams, and organizations answer a call to courage and develop leaders
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“Stick with it, my dad made this sign that he has in his office that say’s trust your crazy ideas and I think that’s the case because, things that I have been told would never ever ever work are you’re never going to be able to find software developers that like doing maintenance, well guess what we have 130 developers on a waiting list waiting to work for us, we have the opposite problem”…[Listen for More]
More About Andrea Goulet:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“[…] The art of proposing a question must be held of higher value than solving it.” Georg Cantor
Other Quotes From the Chat with Andrea Goulet:
- “I would rather have a firm no than a weak yes”
- “Even though you think you’re in control, you’re really not, and you’re always going to be subject to larger elemental forces that you just can’t predict but what you can have is a rational and clear response to those conditions, so again taking a deep breath, calming yourself, instead of reacting with frenzy, reacting with a really clear mind”
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