Thomas Healy: Founder and CEO of Hyliion | #ThePlaybook 339

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David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

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🗓️ 22 December 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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On this episode of #ThePlaybook, Thomas Healy, Founder and CEO of Hyliion, shares his thoughts on: [0:55] - Why he’s had a desire to build his own startup company since he was a kid, following in the footsteps of his parents [4:55] - How his engineering background has equipped him to be a better leader and entrepreneur [6:58] - His strategy for finding the right mix between running a rapidly-growing business and his personal life [11:14] - How he identified opportunities in the trucking industry to disrupt the status quo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	On this episode of the playbook I have Thomas Healy, the founder and CEO of Hytheon,
0:04.3	and we're going to talk about heavy duty trucks, car racing, and how can we create negative,
0:11.3	I'm talking negative, emissions.
0:14.0	Join me for all of this and more on the playbook.
0:17.0	This is Entrepreneurs, the Playbook.
0:19.0	For each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk about their personal and professional playbook to success and what made them champions on the field and in the boardroom. I'm your host David Melzer. I have another
0:36.1	extraordinary entrepreneur Thomas Healy. He is the founder and CEO of
0:40.1	Highlion and it's been a long journey, Tom. Welcome to the playbook, by the way.
0:45.2	Oh, thanks for having us on, I appreciate it.
0:47.6	You're another one of those guys I was telling I did some due diligence and it's such so much fun because I've admired you from afar. I always
0:54.3	pick up on really great entrepreneurs and try to learn lessons but until I do like full due
0:58.8	diligence you don't get the heart and soul of an entrepreneur and what you also don't get is the personality
1:04.9	traits, characteristics, obsessions, and addictions, and you also don't get on the other side
1:10.6	the non-overnight success.
1:13.2	You know, a lot of times when you watch the media, it's like, oh yeah, you know, Thomas
1:17.1	Peely, overnight success, unbelievable, highly on, you know, and then you get down to the nitty gritty going wait a second this has been decades
1:26.5	of really intellectual and focus work what you, starting off was your big dream? I'm sure it wasn't highly on
1:36.2	when you started. What when you were a kid were you thinking, this is what I'm going to be?
1:40.0	Yeah, so I knew I wanted to do a startup ultimately. I knew I wanted to kind of create my own journey, my own destiny and do something that I could build from the ground up. You know, I was a little kid. After school, I'd actually go to my parents' office.
1:54.6	They had a few startups that they created
1:57.2	throughout their careers, and that's kind of what I grew up with,
2:00.4	is going to their offices.
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