Monday in our class, Entrepreneur Derek Young came to talk to us.
Derek Young is what people might call a "serial entrepreneur". He specializes in web-based companies and has a series of businesses designed to foster business growth and general interest in Tacoma. His site exit133.com is a web-zine of sorts that features events and news based around Tacoma. He also founded Suite 133, which is business space that people can rent to work out of when they want to start a company, or have a company that is small enough to not need it's own full time business space.
One of his newest ventures is Seasonal View, a company made of him and other experienced individuals that basically contract to large companies to help them organize or develop call centers.
His presentation was cool because he shares certain ideals with me. For example, he wants to engineer his career so that he can go anywhere and do anything and still be able to work. That has always been one of my goals, and it's interesting to see someone actually beginning to make that happen.
Derek was a wealth of information and it was great to have him.
EDIT: I think I've asked 5 questions total.
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