Coaching, Leadership, And What I Learned in Prince George's (PG) County Maryland About Winning

Episode notes

His mom arrived in America with $4. His dad came with $10 and two shirts. Together they built a life — and passed down a philosophy that would eventually help their son lead a $1.3 billion exit. Sujey Edward grew up first-gen in PG County, Maryland watching his father run gas stations, tobacco farms, video stores, and a Peruvian chicken restaurant — all with one belief: "The math is the math." (The kanakku is the kanakku) Sujey took that mindset into tech, pivoted from chemistry to IT by spotting a supply-demand gap, bluffed his way into his first job, and grinded two days ahead of everyone just to keep up. He eventually became CTO of Octo, wrote a personal check to buy in, and helped grow the company from 200 to 1,500 employees before IBM acquired it for $1.3 billion cash.