Audrey MacLean
Audrey MacLean
Audrey MacLeanis an American businesswoman and entrepreneur. She has been featured on Forbes’ Midas Touch List, Fortune’s Most Powerful Women and Business Week’s Top 50 Business Women in America...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinesswoman
CountryUnited States of America
became networking
I started in time-sharing and networking with packet switching, which was the precursor to what became the Internet. Time-shared use on packet-switch networks, when you think about it, is the cloud.
boys great math respect
Math is the great equalizer. If you can do the numbers, the boys have to respect you.
gauge
I'm just not entirely sure how to gauge the faddiness of the Internet.
certain company evident goes higher market
The more evident it is that a certain company is going to become the market leader in a big market space, then the higher the valuation goes because the risk has been dramatically reduced.
figure market redefine
You've got to figure out how you're going to come in and significantly impact and redefine a market such that you become a market share leader in it.
allow functional grasp points price understand
You need to understand the market, know how you can differentiate yourself in it, and grasp the price and the functional differentiation competitive points that are going to allow you to be disruptive.
fully war
Starting a company is like going to war. You can't do anything else but be fully engaged. You have to be insanely, passionately, nothing-can-stop-me committed.