I'm starting a new series called #Advice4Entrepreneurs. I ask the same two questions to close out the interview: 1. What advice can you offer budding entrepreneurs? 2. What skills that you use now do you wish you would have paid more more attention to back in college or the early part of your career? This series are those last two questions.
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Podcast Guest
George Shaw
Founder & CEO
Pathr.ai
https://pathr.ai/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgemshaw/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nerdshaw
Podcast Hosts
Jeff Roster
Twitter https://twitter.com/JeffPR
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-roster-bb51b8/
Website https://thisweekininnovation.com
Brian Sathianathan
Twitter https://twitter.com/BrianVision
Website https://www.iterate.ai
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Transcript
Jeff Roster: As we wrap up, I just, I wanna ask you a couple questions since you've since you've been in the startup space for a while, what advice would you give for young entre?
George Shaw: I think have a vision make, make sure that you have a vision, make sure that you're not pursuing a company and your vision is to sell the company, think about what it is you're trying to accomplish, and then single mindedly pursue that vision. You're gonna have a lot of distractions.
There's a ton of noise. There's all kinds of challenges and hurdles. And this was my first time launching a company. So I got to see all this pretty, pretty recently. There's a lot of stuff that's gonna go wrong. There's a lot of things you don't expect. And so having that north star, I think is really key, knowing what it is you're building and stay laser focused on.
Jeff Roster: And finally, what skills do you use now? Do you wish you would've paid more attention [00:20:00] to back in college or the early start of your.
George Shaw: So there's a skill that I used a lot in the early part of my career that I didn't expect to use in the later part of my career. Which is creativity.
I, I spent some time as a graphic designer. I actually. Went to art school way back. And I didn't expect that when I transitioned into technology, that creativity would be important and being able to create and design a solution that, that pleased the customer. I didn't expect that to be important.
So I was dropped that notion when I was going into tech and now I'm realizing that's incredibly important. And the, then the other would be that I didn't focus at all on early in my career. And that I've found is really important. And I think most folks later in their career might agree with this is that business, no matter what level you're at, no matter what you're doing, if you're an entrepreneur or a big company or whatever it Is about people and spending more time and more effort on, kind of people skills and learning how to network effectively.
And those kinds of things is something that they sure don't teach you in college. And I think it's something that's [00:21:00] incredibly valuable later. Yeah,
Jeff Roster: I learned my networking, my fraternity. So it definitely was not part of my business training as much to my parents chagrin, but to be honest, a lot of that is I probably use more of that now than some of the accounting classes I took.
Hey George, thanks for your time today. How can how can retailers or other partners get a hold of you?
George Shaw: Yeah, again, feel free to, to email George path.ai, ptr.ai.
Jeff Roster: Awesome. Thank me directly. Thanks for the time today. I appreciate it. Good luck.
George Shaw: Thanks a lot, Jeff.