An engineer who built a reputation as a "fixer" at Northrop Grumman and Booz Allen Hamilton by taking on unwanted projects now invests the same way: working across dozens of companies, constantly solving new problems. The habit of tinkering with diverse challenges fostered an entrepreneurial mindset that translates directly to investing.
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What specifically did you take from that experience that you now apply as an investor?
From that experience, the thing I take with, you know, I'm an engineer, so I've been an engineer and I've had a position where I was being known back when I worked at Northrop Grumman in Booz Allen Hamilton as somebody who would just take on any project. You know, when there was a project that nobody else would want to take, I would take it, right? So I became like a fixer or a problem solver. So I was always tinkering With a bunch of different things. It was never one thing. And so that feeds into being an entrepreneur and tinkering and trying to solve random problems. And then as an investor, I basically get to work, you know, in the peripheral of, you know, dozens of companies, you know, solving complex problems all the time. So I guess it just feeds into my ADD-ness, always wanting to do something different, right?