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"I learned many great lessons from my parents growing up who were both entrepreneurs – my father is in real estate and my mom’s work revolves around company values--to help companies put people before product."
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Kim Perell"People ask me that all the time. Obviously starting in my kitchen in Hawaii originally and then now being part of such a large, nearly $50 billion Telco has been a journey and I think the journey has been an interesting ride. My first company was acquired by a European advertising company. So I did spend nearly five years in Europe helping to build and scale that. Now, being acquired again by an Asian Telco has been even more interesting,”"
Kim Reed Perell is an American serial entrepreneur, business executive, speaker, author and startup mentor, based in Miami, Florida.
"I learned many great lessons from my parents growing up who were both entrepreneurs – my father is in real estate and my mom’s work revolves around company values--to help companies put people before product."
"When Xdrive went bankrupt, it was the worst time in my life,"
"Being an entrepreneur was in my DNA"
"I felt like if I could start a business in Hawaii, I could start one anywhere,”"
"Specifically the importance of maintaining a relentless focus on the bottom line and learning how to bounce back from defeat,” she says. “There is a value in experiencing how very wrong things can go, being resilient, and bouncing back quickly.”"
"My mother told me we all have unique talents and abilities – and many of them can’t be measured on a test. She said comparing myself to anyone else (especially my twin sister) would not make me happy and then she shared Theodore Roosevelt’s famous quote, “Comparison is the Thief of Joy”."