Julian Waits: Find a way to help society. [Serial Entrepreneur] [Career Notes]

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🗓️ 24 August 2025

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Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Senior Vice President and Executive in Residence with Rapid7 and Chairman for Cyversity, Julian Waits, grew up in the era of the Justice League and Superman and it shaped his career. Julian always wanted to do something where he could find a way to help society to basically help others. Starting out as a Baptist minister with aspirations of being a professional musician, Julian found it more practical to take some technology classes and practice his saxophone when he had time. His first tech job was at Texaco where he worked on early networks and moved into systems engineering at Compaq. Julian notes his ADD made coding less attractive than talking with others to solve problems and Compaq provided him with opportunities to pivot. Searching out diversity, Julian moved to DC, and had his first taste of startups. He now describes himself as a serial entrepreneur. We thank Julian for sharing his story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Cyberwire Network, powered by N2K.
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0:52.7	Thank you. dot com backslash cyberwire my name is Julian Wait and I'm the senior vice president and executive
1:06.1	in residence with rap the seven as well as the chairman for Cyversity.
1:20.8	When I was a kid, and I grew up in the era of the Justice League and Superman and everything.
1:28.3	And I always wanted to do something where I could find a way to help society, to basically help others, protect others.
1:36.3	I always thought that was going to be a military career or something like that.
1:40.3	Didn't work out, but that was my assumption as a child.
1:55.6	I was for a while a Baptist minister, and I was very much into music being from New Orleans, Louisiana. Jazz and gospel was my thing.
2:03.2	And so I thought I was going to be like a church musician and a minister.
2:08.5	As I was leaving high school going to college,
2:12.0	and I also got married early,
2:14.3	it occurred to me that to be a professional musician,
2:17.1	I probably needed to be a little
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