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Originally Posted by SleazyDream
10. What did you do for IBM?
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After investment banking and the Dominican republic, I went back to work in Finance -- but this time on the Credit side (large, syndicaed, Fortune 100 loans, for the most part).
Though I did this for a few years (working on the 99th Floor of World Trade Center, Tower 2!) I got bored and decided to combine my affinity for Web technology with my salesmanship.
I took a job in Marketing for IBM, and wound-up writing speeches for Lou Gerstner (including his '96 InternetWorld Keynote) and hawking all kinds of Java ?things? that came out of the IBM labs, to the enterprise.
Basically, I would sit down with the programmers and they?d tell me what the code could do, and I?d think up what kind of product to make it into ? the marketing, the Web strategy, who the customer was, etc.
My IBM years taught me a lot about how to get things done in large mainstream companies -- something that will prove invaluable in the execution of
profitLAB's mission.
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