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Guest Speaker #6: Shadrach White

Shadrach White was one of my favorite guest speaker so far in this class! Besides just the CEO's perspective on different aspects of his business and the journey so far, I really liked his personality and his willingness to thoroughly answer all the questions. I noticed that he is a very glass half full type of person, which sounds like one of the core pre requisites for becoming a CEO.
One of the most important thing that I learned from Shadrach was that "People generally like people", it really resonated with me because I tend to give everybody benefit of the doubt and assume that they are a decent human being and treat other human beings with same respect and dignity. He value this trait very much because that is how he got two of his angel investors for his company.
Shadrach talked about how important being patient is for an entrepreneur, although he did admit that he was not very patient in his early years. Being patient is very important especially for CEO and Managers in the Software/Web Development industry because programmers need to be given some sort of artistic freedom to get into their creative zone. Sometimes a developer could spend days staring at the computer screen and only write a few lines of code, which would be looked bad upon by some managers. But Shadrach realizes that writing code is a sort of art because there are tools and guidelines out there to help structure and organize the code as well as give guidelines, but when writing code from the scratch most of it is not something you can find somewhere and requires waiting for some sort of inspiration or an idea to kickstart the process.

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