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4. Startup Fundraising
5. Curating Your Company Culture
6. Mastering Leadership
From Small Town To Big Time
Lucas Ward grew up in a much different environment than where their company is headquartered in Chicago today.
It was a small town in rural Missouri. One traffic light and a Burger King. His high school graduation only had 60 people. From way back then he saw the power of the internet for connecting to the big world out there.
Lucas didn’t grow up with a lot of money. His first computer came from Walmart. Then he started to learn to build his own.
His high school computer class was basically Lucas running around to try and fix the school’s computers. He got an A.
At Missouri State University he earned his degree in computer science. Then went to work in corporate America and open source. He had never been on a plane until going to work for Accenture. Then he basically started living on them.
They set him to work big batch processing systems. Processing millions and if not billions of records. They rebuilt frameworks. Accenture took it open source. He began working with their clients all over the US and in Europe. They included the state of IL and even Chase bank. Through this work, he was introduced to startups. Including SpringSource, which was acquired by VMware.
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