From academic probation to co-founding a Fortune 500 company valued over 60B: Edwin Marcial discusses leadership lessons learned throughout his career

Listen as Edwin discusses:

• Dropping out of college and going back to focus on his passion - Computer Science
• Navigating through rejection early in his career
• Why he left a large engineering company, and chose to work for a startup
• Transitioning away from an individual contributor to a manager/leader and CTO
• How ICE built a culture of high performance including
  • Setting big goals
  • The importance of giving employees equity in a young company
  • Emotional intelligence - understanding the people you manage.
  • Getting the ‘right people on the bus’, motivating them and removing your worst performers
  • Managing your culture, not your people
  • Innovating by thinking differently
  • Developing a process to identify and recruit the very best people
  • Competing as a team vs competing against each other
  • Building a diverse team through a focus on skills
• Emerging tech industries he is most excited about
• Competing with Enron
• Leadership in one word