Interview series with Pablo Gonzalez
Channel: MherMardoyan Career Coach
Date: 2019-10-21

I've been obsessed with human connection my whole life. I like to tell people that I'm the most American person in my family. We left Venezuela when I was two, my first real formative memory was walking into my preschool class in Miami Beach, knowing that I was the only kid that didn't speak English, and figuring out how to fit in. At that age you you're kind of a sponge and you're learning which quickly but then a year later, we moved to Spain where I enrolled in a British school. Once again, I didn't understand the Spanish dialect or the English dialect, even though I knew both languages technically. That set me on this life path of always seeing the world as an outsider on the inside. Even though I fit in very seamlessly in Hispanic culture and American culture, and basically everywhere I go, I still always keep that perspective. 
I was always the kid that befriended adults and as I became an adult, now I'm the adult of friends’ kids, and I have friends that are 20-30 years older than me. I really lean into that stuff. So that's who I am. 

As far as my entrepreneurial journey goes. I've had a very squiggly path, it's always been a learning experience. I graduated college in 2003, when the world was under a lot of construction. At least the United States was under a lot of construction, and I got this Executive training program at a fortune 500 company that formed me as an executive and I moved to Orange County, California where I was 24 years old. 

I was managing 150 people and a $50 million operation. From there, I became a green building expert in 2008. When the world kind of collapsed, I moved back to Miami, and I started a green building construction consulting company, which two years later got acquired by my biggest customer, which was a huge international conglomerate builder. So that was my first foray into entrepreneurship. I did well, I experienced the same kind of setbacks and wins and things that I'm learning from that I'm applying now. 

Then I went into work for that conglomerate for seven years, and learned a lot there. Most importantly, I learned the value of getting involved in my community because I had started doing that, and because I leaned into all that stuff, I got into this whole community creation for business development, which then transition my career from a director of sustainability, at this big company, where I was just kind of on an island, tried to fix a problem with a diminishing marginal return on their investment on me as time went on to being a business developer. 

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LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablo-gonzalez-4333b42/

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