Episode #18 Career Pivot with Jay Shaw: From commercial fisherman to serial entrepreneur
Description
Jay Shaw is an entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry and experience on both corporate and non-profit organization boards.
He had a very unusual start to his career – he was a commercial fisherman for 10 years. After that, he became an English teacher in China.
Jay co-founded and served as CEO of NetDimensions, a technology company acquired in 2017 after listing on the London Stock Exchange AIM. He is currently the CEO of Praxonomy, a UK-based software company that provides board portal solutions to listed and private companies, NGOs, and fund management groups.
Jay takes a broad view of corporate issues as an executive with experience in information technology, software development, cloud services, compliance, governance and risk, strategy, general management, and corporate development.
We talked about the following:
- the unusual start to his work life - being a commercial fisherman.
- becoming an English language teacher in China
- starting his first venture
- being an entrepreneur
- selling one company and starting again with his current company - Praxonomy (https://www.praxonomy.com/)
- managing a start-up in times of COVID and geopolitical changes
- managing a new company as a digital nomad
Jay's three key takeaways for anyone who wants to pivot their career into entrepreneurship:
1. Awareness: You must have an idea for a product or unmet need that you can solve.
2. Willingness: You must be willing to take action on this idea or unmet need.
3. Resilience: You have to be able to deal with setbacks and change course as needed.
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