Advice from a Founder Who Built a $390M Company at 57 | LucidLink, Peter Thompson

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Peter Thompson is Co-Founder and CEO of LucidLink, a cloud-native file service provider enabling fast remote access to data for collaboration. After a 20+ year career culminating as Vice President of Emerging and Developing Markets at Datacore, Peter made the bold decision to return to Stanford graduate school at 48. During his studies, an unexpected call from former colleague George launched him into an entrepreneurial journey. Just as they were poised to secure VC funding after two years of development, the COVID pandemic created an existential crisis. How can we embrace challenge in every moment? How do we uphold our core values during our most frightening times? Join us as we discover answers through Peter's remarkable journey. 00:00 Intro 02:29 Embracing Ambiguity 05:26 Unexpected call from old colleague 10:34 Are you ready to fire everyone? 15:33 How to Challenge Your Life EO stands for Entrepreneurship & Opportunities. As we're looking to feature more inspiring stories of entrepreneurs all over the world, don't hesitate to contact us at partner@eoeoeo.net LinkedIn | @EO STUDIO X | @eostudi0 Instagram | @eostudio.official Substack | @eostudio Subtitles for this video were created using [XL8.ai](http://xl8.ai/) machine translation.