Mark Shuttleworth is the CEO of Canonical, an open source software provider whose partners include Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services.
Shuttleworth started his first company, the software security firm Thawte, from his parents' garage in Cape Town, South Africa.
Yet none of this would have been possible without the success of Thawte - a $575 million web security firm he founded and built from his parents' Cape Town garage."For a while I think my parents thought it was just a phase I was going through, avoiding the choice of a real career," Shuttleworth tells Business Insider.
He continues:"One of the benefits of being small is that you can really focus on quality and purpose, whereas projects inside large companies are always buffeted by corporate requirements."So even though we were tiny — and there were some large organisations interested in certification — we were able to offer a higher quality assurance, faster, and cheaper, in most countries around the world.
"My 'Sherpa' in Russia, if you like, was this sparky-eyed doctor who gave me medical tests. I couldn't just sign one contract to go to space. I bought a spacesuit before I had a clear path to being able to use it. "It's worth just going out on a limb and finding out what you can do. In my case, the experience was total cultural immersion in a slightly crazy culture: the Russian space industry."
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