Cold Emailing Steve Jobs - Gary Gattis (CEO @ Hypergiant Galactic Systems)

Gary Gattis is a creative interdisciplinary leader guiding people and processes to improve our world. His specialties include growth, operations, and management. He has founded several companies at the intersection of technology and design, and led extremely diverse teams to success. He is currently CEO for Hypergiant Galactic Systems, focussed on integrating Artificial Intelligence with the commercialization of Space. Outside of work he can usually be found buried in a good sci-fi novel.

TOPICS:

• 2:13: Gary Gattis's experience watching a space rocket launch
• 5:36: How did Gary Gattis design his own college curriculum at UT Austin?
• 10:25: How Gary Gattis got his first job in the industry by cold calling the CEO 30 times?
• 14:55: Why Gary Gattis believes in designing his own luck?
• 20:54: Gary Gattis explains the benefits of hanging out with folks from different generations
• 26:18: Gary Gattis' foray into the gaming world and running the Star Wars Galaxies game at Sony
• 37:40: Gary Gattis explains the process behind designing a game
• 41:01: Gary Gattis's journey of starting Spacetime Studios
• 50:14: What happened after Gary Gattis sent a cold email to Steve Jobs?
• 57:10: Gary Gattis & team raise venture captial from Insight Venture Partners
• 1:00:05: Why was Gary Gattis thinking of selling the company?
• 1:10:10: How Gary Gattis leveraged his network to discover the next big thing to work on and joined Hypergiant!

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MORE COOL STUFF TO CHECK OUT:

• StrengthsFinders 2.0 (Book)
• Hypergiant (Startup)
• Spacetime Studios (Company)
   

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