An Interview With An Entrepreneur
The following interview with Bill Nguyen (pronounced “WIN”) was sent to me several years ago from a friend. I can’t recall who the publisher was or who did the interviewing otherwise I would have given due credit to them.
It’s CHOCK FULL of excellent marketing and business wisdom. It is truly a ‘gold nugget’ and worth your time reading and studying.
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Entrepreneur Bill Nguyen discovered the bottom line in business fairly early in life. As a job-hunting 16-year-old, he bet a supervisor at a Houston used-car lot that he could sell more autos in a weekend than any of the veteran salesmen.
The boss agreed to the bet, and Nguyen promptly sold twice as many cars. As a result, he got the job, which enabled him to take on a financial responsibility that ultimately shaped the rest of his professional and personal life: He paid his own way through private high school.
Nguyen has an independent financial philosophy, and a reluctance to take things for granted, particularly in regard to the companies he creates. “There are no free handouts,” he says. “When people decide to give us money, I don’t think that’s a win, I think that’s a commitment.”
The Redwood City, Calif., company he founded less than nine months ago – Seven, which will build software for wireless carriers that can handle millions of mobile business users so they can access databases, e-mail and intranets -just secured a strategic partnership with Microsoft and $34 million in venture capital. The achievement would have many entrepreneurs celebrating, but not Nguyen. “I don’t hoop and hurrah every time we get a customer,” he says, speaking
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