4.8 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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How did a former senior tech leader leave the computer industry for the health supplement field? In this episode, Kim and Humann CEO Joel Kocher talk about his successes, mistakes and lessons learned. You’ll also learn how science is moving his company forward — and how that helps you.
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0:00.0 | I love entrepreneurs. You know, it's never too late to change your career. Did you know that Stephen King, yeah, him, he used to be a janitor, and Walt Disney used to be a newspaper editor when there were newspapers. He was fired for a quote, not having enough imagination. Can you believe that? I wonder what his boss felt once like |
0:22.0 | Snow White and Mickey Mouse came out. And get this, Pope Francis, could you imagine? He was a |
0:28.1 | bouncer for nightclubs. Well, welcome to Kim Commando Explains. And in this episode, I'm going to be |
0:34.2 | speaking with one man who made a big pivot in his career. |
0:38.2 | Joel Kotcher left the tech world to make health supplements. |
0:41.6 | It's not like this was a teeny tiny change. |
0:43.8 | Let me tell you, in the tech world, he was a big cheese. |
0:47.0 | He was the big dog. |
0:48.3 | He was a big cahuna. |
0:49.8 | You get my point. |
0:50.9 | He spent 25 years as a senior leader, talking about CEO's level, of companies |
0:55.9 | that raked in billions of dollars in revenue. He was the president at Dell Computer for seven |
1:01.3 | years. That's just one of his many former jobs. Let me put it this way. There are a lot of big |
1:07.4 | titles and big tech names on his LinkedIn page. And all that piqued my interest. |
1:12.9 | I mean, how does somebody go from high tech to healthy foods? And so in this episode, I chat with |
1:19.2 | Joel about how he made the change, why he made the change, and what he's doing with his passion |
1:24.0 | to help people stay healthy. We're going to be talking about tech and science. And there are |
1:29.0 | a lot of key lessons here you can apply to your life. Coming up is a great conversation that I had |
1:34.2 | with Joel that you don't want to miss. |
1:44.1 | It's Kim Commando explains, and I'm in conversation with human CEO, Joel Kotcher. |
1:49.0 | So, Joel, when we look at your background, okay, you were the president of Dell Computer, |
1:54.4 | the CEO and chairman of Micron Electronics, the chairman and CEO of web.com and interland. |
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