“CEOs Can Never Call In Sick” 5 Leadership Lessons With Susan Akbarpour, CEO of Mavatar Technologies
CEOs can never call in sick (I’m notorious to go to work with mask, Vitamin C packs for everyone- I feel guilty to stay home when everyone works. Later on I read in a study that Guilt is the main ingredient of entrepreneurship
I had the pleasure to interview Susan Akbarpour. Susan is the CEO and co-founder of Mavatar Technologies, the company she founded in 2011 based on her research in graduate school, soon after receiving her MS in Management from Stanford University in 2010. Mavatar is the leading provider of SaaS,PaaS and turnkey solutions that make the world around us shoppable, allowing consumers to track products to online and offline stores, leveraging the power of the content which is very close to Susan’s heart as a former investigative reporter and publisher. Susan, born in Iran; lost her mother in a car accident at age 12 and her father by cancer as age 19, hit the ground when she first arrived at the United States with $2000 in her pocket as a former investigative reporter in Iran. She started multiple start-ups and age 40 decided to get back to graduate school, while she has her 3 years daughter. Throughout her…
