Ep006 Finding Your Way w.Ernest Popescu - & Finding Truth On The Journey
Finance Guys In Tech
English - October 16, 2019 16:00 - 46 minutes - 32.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 7 ratingsCareers Business Technology amazon amazon web services finance tech careers cloud computing mba inspiration business school creativity Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
“Be true to yourself, no matter what.”
Today our guest is Ernest Popescu, a Bus Dev Sr. Manager here in AWS Infrastructure (and Sid’s business partner). Ernest takes us on a classic ‘Hero’s Journey’ prior to joining Amazon in 2014, complete with tales, hijinks, and the lessons he learned along the way. This episode was a blast. We hope you have as much fun as we did!
3:50 | Wait, how many languages does Ernest know?
5:01 | Ernest as a kid - sports…and just a little trouble ;)
8:01 | Mechanical engineering & joins the infantry at 18
10:10 | First job consulting with DBM, in France, Spain
11:50 | Futon + PS3 + ricer cooker = simple times
12:45 | A duplex, a pug and a very interesting transition towards the business side with GM…
17:50 | Peeling back the layers…of a coconut
18:50 | A ‘Think Big’ objective on salary…
19:45 | Two early lessons from a Managing Director - on money, and communication
21:50 | Here it is…the run up to the Amazon origin story begins…it involves a building up a respectable art collection
22:35 | An explanation to the art gallery **PICS OF THE ART GALLERY BELOW (or go check it out on the blog here if you’re reading this from the show notes) https://www.charleskunken.com/blog/6/#ArtGallery
26:25 | …and then Amazon comes a calling…
29:10 | What was different at Amazon - loved the culture
31:05 | Which ‘Leadership Principles’ would you add?
33:29 | What was different about working with Finance peeps at Amazon?
34:20 | What makes a good finance partner
36:30 | What advice would you give yourself starting out? - Be true to yourself, no matter what
39:36 | on consuming new information & what’s Ernest reading,
40:44 | Ernest drops one of my favorite fiction books of all time ‘ The Name Of The Wind’ by Patrick Rothfuss
42:55 | Three people for dinner
43:56 | and Ernest’s philosophy on life
Ernest on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ernestpopescu/
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