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Renaud Visage

“The coolest thing about my job is setting the vision for the company and having an impact.“ As Cofounder and CTO of Eventbrite he has to make sure that this online market place for eventorganisation keeps track with the changing enviroment in the field. So his team should “not rest on our laurels. Technologies are changing every day, we have to know what is coming and who the players are.“

Kyle "Beef" Bautista

“Being able to travel all over the place. And probably the absolute coolest thing is being in a crowded stadium, tens of thousand of people all chatting the same thing and sharing that passion you have“, Kyle “Beef“ Bautista, General Manager at Complexity Gaming, explains the aspects about his job he’s dedicated to. The skills, which really are helping him in his everyday job are certain social skills, problemsolving skills and also “being able to create project tasks, time management and conflict resolution.“

Casey McNeil

“Solving a mass of problems, that hardly anybody had heard about“, is for Casey McNeil, Co-Founder and CEO, REEcycle Inc., the coolest thing about his job, where he tries to find partners to recycle rare earth metals mainly from electronic devices. But within the company there are also some limitations: “You have to keep the team envolved, you have to keep everybody on track as you continue the scale.“

Elisabeth Oberndorfer

“Love it, change it or leave it”, rät Elisabeth Oberndorfer ihrem 14-jährigen Ich in Hinsicht auf die Wahl ihres zukünftigen Jobs. Sie ist sowohl freie Journalistin in San Francisco als auch Vereinsobfrau bei Digitalista. “Als freie Journalistin ist die Schwierigkeit vor allem, dass man wirklich in den Medien unterkommt, da hat man sehr viel Unsicherheit dabei.” Worum es bei ihrem Job bei Digitalista geht? “Eigentlich bin ich der Kleber für alles.”

Seth Goldstein

“We make it really easy for people to DJ using their iPhone.” As Co-Founder and CEO of djz.com, Seth Goldstein is surrounded by a lot of music. The limitation? “It’s hard to disconnect, because there’s always more. There’s always more information, there’s always data, there’s always email, there’s always Facebook, there’s always Instagram.”

Dirk Ahlborn

“Bad experiences and good experiences are necessary.” Dirk Ahlborn is convinced, that he did everything right by the age of 14 to become the person who he is now – someone who has a vision and is pursuing it. The limitations of his job as a CEO of Hyperloop are the long hours of travelling and the little private life he has: “It’s not easy to be an Entrepreneur when you have family. It’s very hard to combine those two things.”

Gil Penchina

“I would probably tell myself not to worry that much about grades, because it turned out that they didn’t matter.” If Gil Penchina had a time machine, this would be one piece of advice he would tell his 14-year old self. What matters a lot more is to meet and talk to people which is now the coolest thing about his job as an Angel Investor at AngelList: “I get to meet really interesting people and I learn a ton from listening to their ideas.”

Brendan Paul

“My job is to dance around and to make people happy.” Brendan Paul is Elvis Imitator at Graceland Wedding Chapel. He has been working in the entertainment business for about twenty years now. In his job it is important “to be nice to people and to make them laugh and feel good.”

Easton LaChappelle

“We use technology in a positive way.” Easton LaChappelle is CEO of Unlimited Tomorrow. His job is about creating roboters, which have a great impact on people’s lifes. His dream started when he was about 14 years old: “At this age I had no kind of a concept about software, electronics or mechanics, so I started to teach myself from the internet.”

Joy Chen

“As long as you put your mind to it, you can do it”, was the best advice, Joy Chen received from her mother back in the days. As the CEO of YES TO, a natural skin care company, she values to work hard and celebrate together with her team. If somebody with a different background could do her job? “I don’t think, extended education is necessary to be an entrepreneur.”

Brendan Eich

“What I like most is recruiting people onto the team and see them grow.” As a CEO and Software Technologist Brendan Eich’s daily business varies a lot from day to day. His position as CEO combines a lot of tasks such as fundraising, speaking, travelling and focusing on the main goals. He is also involved in the process of implementing improvements on the system. Is his background needed for his position? “We are trying to move mountains and for that you need experience. You need to understand the needs of the customers.”

Mario Herger

“Das Coolste an meinem Job ist, dass ich tolle Leute treffe, die wirklich die Welt verändern wollen. Das sind Leute die Ideen haben, die die coolen Dinge machen und die wirklich daran glauben, auch wenn es extrem schwer ist das zu machen, gegen alle Widerstände drüber zu kommen. Das ist etwas extrem inspirierendes für mich” erzählt Mario Herger, CEO und Autor. Seinem 14-jährigen Ich rät er: “Versuche möglichst rasch etwas zu finden und darüber nachzudenken, was du in der Welt verbessern möchtest. Also nicht immer nur überlegen wie macht man viel Geld, wie macht man viel Kohle, das macht letztendlich nicht glücklich."

Carla Rivera

“We will help clients to move from a current state to a future state. We will help with the transition having the people always in the middle”, tells Carla Rivera about her job as an Engagement Manager for Future State, a management consulting company. “What I love about my job is to be part of something that’s bigger than the job itself.”

Gretchen Tibbits

“The coolest part about my work is that we sometimes have exotic animals in the office.” Gretchen Tibbits, President & COO of Little Things, loves everything about her job. Her responsibility is leading all the company’s teams - that’s her inside job. Her outside job is going to various events, sharing the story of Little Things and building partnerships. “A tool for running a business is knowledge in finance and you should be able to think on a visionary level and translate that down to how the team executes.”

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Andrey "Reynad" Yanyuk

“The coolest thing about my job I guess would be to travel. Seeing friends in different countries every weekend.“ That’s what Andrey "Reynad" Yanyuk, Owner of Tempo Storm, pro Hearthstone player outlines as the most exciting part of his job. His main advice to his 14-year-old self? “If you are really good at something, don’t be lazy because of it. Make sure that you work hard anyway.“

Jesse Draper

“I started a talk show called ‘The Valley Girl Show’ and I always had this idea for a fun talk show based around business, entrepreneurs and CEOs.” Jesse Draper is CEO, founder and actress and encourages everybody to start one’s own company. “The coolest part of my job is that I don’t have a boss. So I am my own boss and I am the boss of everyone else.”

Joanna Weidenmiller

“The FBI came to me in my sophomore year in college and recruited me into the FBI to work for them in the international training unit.” tells Joanna Weidenmiller about her life before becoming the co-founder and CEO of 1-page, a recruiting company. Today she is excited to “have an incredible team of people that are smarter than me and I get the hell out of their way - that’s my job: I stand up and I am the voice of the company.”

Eileen Carey

“My day is really whatever happens from 7am until midnight.” describes Eileen Carey her role as a founder and CEO of Glassbreakers, a mentorship community for women. She encourages others that “anyone can be a CEO as long as they are passionate about what they are doing.”

Linda Kozlowski

“Talking to customers and hearing how Evernote helped them be a better teacher or plan their family vacation or build their company makes me realise: I love what I do.” Linda Kozlowski, Vize President of International Marketing travels around the world talking to people from India to Brazil. “The biggest restriction I have is just how long it takes to fly to places.”

Maroane Abdallaoui

“Seeing the future happening”, is the best part of Maroane Abdallaoui’s job as Open Innovation Manager for PRIME, promoting the Paris region as a center of innovation. When it comes to dreams he advises to “be patient. It’s not because it didn’t work out the first time that you have to abandon your dream.”

Nick "BreakyCPK" Caras

“Eat better, don’t be afraid of girls and understand, that your parents have good intentions”, are the three pieces of advice, Nick Caras, also kown as "BreakyCPK", would tell his 14-year-old self. His job as a Pro player / Analyst at Frostburn Studios is not just something he enjoys but also helped to improve his life in general: “I have a fiance, I got my own house, I have a job that I just truly enjoy.”

Tomaso Poggio

“You can win the Nobel Prize and you can also possibly become a billionaire”, Tomaso Poggio, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences talks about the opportunities and the excitement he feels towards the topics he’s researching on. “I got in love with the Theory of Relativity and Einstein, when I was a kid”, he explains his early ambitions.

Francine Gordon

“I wound up on the faculty as one of the first two women on the faculty at the Stanford graduate school of business at a time when … there were only 5 women out of 600 students in the whole student body.” explains Francine Gordon, CEO of Womennovation, about her interest in the advancement of women. About her own path she tells “I’ve done a variety of things” and “I have taken advantage of opportunities.”

Andra Keay

“I’m fascinated by robotics, because we’re making imitations of ourselves.” Andra Keay is Managing Director of Silicon Valley Robotics and founder of Robot Launch Pad. Her major task is to bring people together and to accelerate ideas into actions. “I’ve always been a geek, but I wanted a creative profession.”