Finding Your Path: How To Listen To Yourself

<p>Dan Abbate is an entrepreneur, thought leader, and investor with a career-long focus in business process optimization and automation using advanced technology, organizational development, and continuous improvement. </p> <p>For the decade leading to 2013, Dan started and developed or acquired and improved then sold eight companies serving various markets and industries with a total market value of over $100,000,000 and were funded using private and public capital markets. From 2013 onward Dan has focused on growing his personal knowledge base to scale his unique value-driving skills and experience as a silent and lead investor and advisor to a number of technology and mainstreet companies. This dedication and focus has placed Dan in a unique leadership position in the cross-section of technology, finance, and business. His book "Automation Manifesto" was published and is available via Amazon and other retail book outlets.</p> <p>In this episode….</p> <p>Dan Abbate is a self-described “wandering philosopher” with a background in coding and technology and a lifelong entrepreneurial spirit. Homeschooled after grade five, Dan was a young college graduate and teenaged entrepreneur. He learned firsthand through his father’s business, sitting in with finance teams there.</p> <p>In his own adult career, Dan applied his technology and automation experience to companies he acquired before reworking his structure to focus on removing himself from actual operations. He is a lifelong student due to his love of learning and is currently working on a Masters of Finance from Harvard University. His current career path is using his experience in what he loves to connect to people as a business advisor/investor.</p> <p>In this episode of What CEOs Talk About, host Martin Hunter discusses listening to yourself and others with Dan Abbate. Dan shares his philosophy on finding yourself and doing what you enjoy every day. They dig into the importance of focusing on what makes you happy and working to remove the physical or emotional