It didn’t take me long to realize I didn’t like maintaining the status quo. Since my very first job I have looked for opportunities to grow and expand business or weakness that could be innovated to improve processes and revenue. It didn’t matter what my job title was. If I saw something that could work better or an opportunity to develop a new market I didn’t hesitate to volunteer.
Then came the biggest opportunity of my lifetime, the widespread use of the internet. While others were debating if this was a fad I went looking for opportunities and I found them. As the second employee hired for the B2B division of Proflowers. In the first year we went from zero to five million dollars in...