#010: Gerald Zingraf (28 yrs) on Building a $2 Million per Year Business as an Engineer
Hackiversity Podcast
English - August 24, 2017 11:31 - 57 minutes - 79.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsCourses Education Business Careers productivity success campus career college education highereducation kylewiney majors student Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Gerald Zingraf (@gzingraf) graduated from Virginia Tech in 2011 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. In less than 6 years after college graduation, Gerald has founded or co-founded 8 companies, including Date To Door and CubeFit. From one company alone—that is, CubeFit—Gerald makes $2 million per year working only 5 hours per week.
In this episode, Gerald and I discuss his story and:
How to determine the best career when you enter college wanting to be everything The skills necessary for succeeding as an engineer The power of persistence The diminishing value of a 4.0 GPA and the soaring value of side projects How to select “Skills Ready Majors” and avoid being 50% of students who are underemployed How to embrace “interestingness” How to maximize learning by focusing on your own learning styleGerald’s “tweetable” advice: “Be curious.”
Connect with Gerald Zingraf on LinkedIn.