I was having coffee with Les who is an extremely successful
technology entrepreneur who casually observed, “You can’t build a relationship
with your thumbs.”
When a guy that talks about structuring his family
foundation like the Vanderbilts in one breath says something like that in the
next I pay attention.
“So what’s the rest of the story,” Kate asked.
“He has been quietly courting me to provide marketing advice
because he wants to build his cloud based business sufficiently to sell it in
about five years and pursue a couple of other ideas he has. He got into cloud
based services before it became a big company fad and now he can see the event
horizon for a few new things.”
Bob groaned and said, “The thumb thing, Fletch”
“He told me that one of his kids is in the Y generation as
are a number of the technicians he employees. They were having a beer
the other night and a couple of the guys started teasing one of their coworkers
for texting in the middle of a beer fest with the boss.”
Les told me “One of them asked another whether anything ever
came of texting like that. He asked if that is how he planned on building a
business of his own or finding the right girl. The youngster answered that it was
a way to keep in touch with his friends but didn’t seem to work for finding
partners of any kind.”
Les ordered another pitcher and listened. That’s when he
heard the thumbs line.”
He told me about his experience working for others and
having ideas he just knew could be profitable but not being able to even talk
to the people running the company. So he went off on his own. And he never
stopped looking for people he could partner with. He said the secret of his
success was taking his time to get to know people and doing it face to face.
His take on where the computerized world is headed is like
science fiction but he has made a fortune betting on his intuition in terms of
technology and people.
It’s nice to meet someone that has become extremely successful
using techniques I’ve been speaking on for years and compare notes.
Les agreed that the key to being successful at just about
anything is based on who trusts you.
How do you get to Trust?
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