Conversation 32: A conversation around the internet of things, business divorces and corporate culture with Jacob Glenn

Jacob Glenn

Jacob started his career with Hyland Software. 

Jacob had a difficult business divorce and told us how he dealt with it. This article may have been helpful to Jacob at the start of his businesses. www.thebalancesmb.com/why-business-partnerships-fail-4107045

Jacob speaks proudly of his team and brought the interesting point of asking potential employees about the hobbies and projects they have on the side. He explained that many of them work on side projects together. He believes it is important for them to use the valleys between customer projects to work on some of these side projects as part of the corporate culture and he will fund some aspects of these projects.

Jacob’s software company works on IOT (internet of things) projects. We spoke about IOT integration and he described a “smart faucet” for a customer and how it entered the mainstream being made fun of on the Daily Show. For more on IOT: www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-the-internet-of-things-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-iot-right-now

Jacob and I had a long conversation on corporate culture and finding the right fit with employees and exiting those from the organization that just don’t fit before the situation becomes toxic.

Jacob talked about books that inspired him along the way and how books that might have been important at one point in his career lost value as his career was built. His list of books included:

Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosoki

Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

Before the Exit by Dan Andrews

The Family Board Meeting by Jim Shields

Own the Day, Own Your Life by Aubrey Marcus

Jacob’s company is M Genio .http://mgenio.com

He can be found on Linkedin @jacobglenn or email him - [email protected]