Rebel Entrepreneur: Silicon Valley, Steve Jobs and Spirituality with Stuart Snyder
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Stuart Snyder was a Co-Founder, Director and CFO of YourAmigo Ltd, which was the SA Exporter of the Year in 2008. Your Amigo was incorporated in 1999 and successfully commercialised novel search technology from Flinders University. YourAmigo is a technology leader in the search marketing space with installations on websites in over 30 different countries including many of the world's top 100 companies in eCommerce.
Stuart grew up in Silicon Valley, starting his career as a CPA at KPMG in San Jose, California and migrated to Adelaide in 1993. He is now an investor in SA startups - Happy Inspector, Portalink Solutions, Frontier Microscopy, Ping and a limited partner in Blackbird Ventures.
Stuart spends time mentoring entrepreneurs and doing volunteer work - he's a self confessed lazy bum.
In this episode we cover: The biggest hurdles in Stuart's career so far. How the idea for YourAmigo came about. Raising capital for YourAmigo when people had not grasped the idea of Google yet. Being a startup investor in South Australia and the challenges within that startup space. The difference between working as an accountant in the United States compared to Australia. Being spiritual and finding his purpose from a young age. Going to High School with Steve Jobs. And much more! Check out the full episode.
[FOOD FOR THOUGHT] "Working as an accountant, I always had a secure job but I never had job security" "To be successful you need to be an optimist" "Life is about having many different experiences"
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