Sam Morhaim has helped startups create and deploy ideas into reality. From web and mobile applications to IoT and everything in-between. His skills have been applied in many industries like Healthcare, Marketing Automation, and FinTech and for clients of all sizes from startups to Fortune 500's.And this is a really, really interesting conversation that we have here.

Sam is Founder & CEO Vantage IO

Well, it's really great to speak to you Samuel. I'm quite interested to learn about what you've been up to after the after the amazing startups you've been involved with over the last few years.

Sam Morhaim 0:59Thank you for having me.

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Nat Schooler 1:02My pleasure. My pleasure. So, in in business, obviously, I mean, I know we're gonna we're going to talk about digital transformation, we're going to talk about startups, right? But also ftse five hundreds and stuff, because I know you've been involved in quite a bit of technology within those as well. But best place to start is probably resilience at work, because to building you know, building any business or even starting a new job is tough, right? So we need to kind of work really, really hard to not be depressed, right?

Sam Morhaim 1:35Yes. Yeah, absolutely. So how do you do that? Definitely. The the mindset is extremely important. I actually you don't know this because we're on a phone call. But I wear a bracelet for the last few months. It's basically says be positive. And on the other side says no negativity allowed. And really, every morning you have to wake up And and have a fresh mindset and not let any any obstacles or rejections throw you down so that you can continue doing the things that that are going to work, you need a lot of hope and a lot of vision to move your idea forward and be able to make it through until until it gets fulfilled. And there is there is no entrepreneur or no business in the world that hasn't had a fair dose or even an amount dose of awareness. So so they need to always be positive and be extremely resilient in order to to transform those ideas into reality. Yeah,

Nathaniel Schooler 2:39yeah, I'll agree with that. I talked to so many people, IBM and Microsoft and things like this. And a lot of the time they actually say that it's great to have someone who you can speak to someone who they might not be a mentor, they might not be a coach, but they might just be like an advocate of yours, for example, within the business or even just a friend you can talk to I mean, I think that really can Help, you know,

Sam Morhaim 3:01core right? Yes. And so it's different for for entrepreneurs work. If you're if you're an entrepreneur, if you're an employee working in a company you want to, to stand out, you typically my experience has been to always find, like you said, not necessarily a mentor but it's always having that that person that has your back that has your, your your best interest in mind, and you can rely on them and it's like your internal call not colleague by your internal partner that can help you propel forward inside an organization. When you're an entrepreneur, you definitely need that because there's people that complain a lot about isolation being alone being, you know, working seven days straight on the computer and not even seen on, you know, anybody's faces. But it's extremely important to always have an external connection, even if it's a family member or friend, or hopefully, you know, a successful business person that can guide you and can at least check with you every month or every quarter and make sure that you're being accountable for your your goals and your objectives.

Nathaniel Schooler 4:10Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I was talking to a gentleman the other day, actually in another one of these expert interviews, and he was saying how, you know,