Finding Your Path: How To Listen To Yourself
Dan Abbate is an entrepreneur, thought leader, and investor with a career-long focus in business process optimization and automation using advanced technology, organizational development, and continuous improvement.
For the decade leading to 2013, Dan started and developed or acquired and improved then sold eight companies serving various markets and industries with a total market value of over $100,000,000 and were funded using private and public capital markets. From 2013 onward Dan has focused on growing his personal knowledge base to scale his unique value-driving skills and experience as a silent and lead investor and advisor to a number of technology and mainstreet companies. This dedication and focus has placed Dan in a unique leadership position in the cross-section of technology, finance, and business. His book "Automation Manifesto" was published and is available via Amazon and other retail book outlets.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
Why Dan Abbate refers to himself as a “wandering philosopher”
The benefits of doing things differently
Why Dan studied math and physics at the University of New Mexico
What Dan was doing between the years of 2003 to 2013 that made him jaded
How “listening to other people” was the impetus for Dan’s change of direction in his career
The valuable piece of advice Jeff Hoffman, founder of Priceline, gave to Dan
The value of doing what works for you and what makes you want to get up in the morning
What Dan’s “walk and talks” are all about
How do you find yourself as a CEO, exactly?
One book that made a difference in Dan’s life
In this episode….
Dan Abbate is a self-described “wandering philosopher” with a background in coding and technology and a lifelong entrepreneurial spirit. Homeschooled after grade five, Dan was a young college graduate and teenaged entrepreneur. He learned firsthand through his father’s business, sitting in with finance teams there.
In his own adult career, Dan applied his technology and automation experience to companies he acquired before reworking his structure to focus on removing himself from actual operations. He is a lifelong student due to his love of learning and is currently working on a Masters of Finance from Harvard University. His current career path is using his experience in what he loves to connect to people as a business advisor/investor.
In this episode of What CEOs Talk About, host Martin Hunter discusses listening to yourself and others with Dan Abbate. Dan shares his philosophy on finding yourself and doing what you enjoy every day. They dig into the importance of focusing on what makes you happy and working to remove the physical or emotional pain from your life and business. Learn Dan Abbate’s secrets to finding your path now.
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