MSP 501 Profile: Technium Successfully Shifts to Biotech/Life Sciences
… several are seeing positive momentum.
CF: Why are you a business owner instead of working for someone else? What is the allure of entrepreneurship to you?
MS: My story here is quite personal and worth telling. I hope it can inspire a few entrepreneurs to take a risk. My father was an immigrant from Lebanon at the age of 11. He was raised in a culture of achievement. All of his siblings reached high levels of success. At the age of 38, he quit a job where he was a highly rated manager on a fast track at General Electric to buy a liquor store and start a real estate business. He did this in order to realize a dream to own his own business. He became a pillar of the community and was a regular and deep part of my childhood. If he had been an executive in someone else’s company, he would have been unavailable and accountable to others.
I started my company at the exact same age, ironically, and for a similar mission, to build a technology company I was proud of and to enable the work-life integration I am so happy with. I never miss a key event for my children. And while I work long hours, it is with the knowledge that I am able to impact a quality outcome for customers and build something special in culture. Both my story and my father’s started with risk, and included small children and a very real chance of failure. But the important message for anyone who truly dreams of owning their a business is that you get one life. And taking risk can have a great benefit if it is your passion.
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