967: Wealth May Come as a By-Product If You Are Doing Something That You Can do Really Well with David Friend Founder and Owner of Wasabi Technologies Inc

David Friend is the co-founder and CEO of Wasabi, the hot cloud storage company that delivers fast, low-cost, and reliable cloud storage at 1/5th the price and 6X the speed of Amazon S3. Prior to Wasabi, David co-founded Carbonite, one of the world’s leading cloud backup companies.

Entrepreneurial Role Models:

None specific

When business started difficulties overcame:

“I quit the next day, literally, the end of my career working for a big company and I dropped out of grad school, I put the cat and the Christmas tree and my wife in the car and we moved to Boston and I started my first business because it became apparent that I was just not a person that was going to be cut out to have a predictable life style and I didn’t know where it was going to lead”…[Listen for More]

Favourite Books:

Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In Book by Roger Fisher and William Ury

Favourite Quote:

“Happiness comes from not wanting”

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Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:

“Find good mentorship because when I look back at my own career, starting my first company pretty much right out of college, I made a lot of mistakes that probably could have been avoided if I had someone to talk to who was kind of on my wave length and could have said think about how A leads to B leads to C, think ahead a few moves”…[Listen for More]

More About David Friend:

Wasabi Technologies

Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:

“Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.” Shannon L. Alder

Other Quotes From the Chat with David Friend:

• “If you approach business with the idea that you want to get rich, I think you will never be happy. If you approach business from the idea that wealth may come as a by product if you’re doing something that you can do really well and that makes you happy by the process, all good things will come from that”
• “If you’re unhappy in your work you’re not going to be very good at it”
• “It’s a lot of responsibility”

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