Jeff Goodwin

Unlike most teenagers, Jeff Goodwin wanted to be an entrepreneur. Though only being 17 he came up with an idea to start a business power washing roofs. This idea came to him when he realized how much people were paying professionals to do it. He watched other people do it and said told himself he could do that. So he rented a power washer and went house to house offering his services. But with him being only a young teenager he went through many rejections before he could finally get a yes. After he got his first job though the neighbors around began to take notice and realized that Jeff could actually do a good job for less cost.

After college Jeff worked for Boeing while also taking night classes learning basic computer languages. Then while on his honeymoon he was offered a job. He had two choices to choose from but instead of choosing the higher paying (and what seemed like a more successful job at the time) he chose to do what he thought he would love doing which is writing assembly code. With this new found expertise he then got a job at IBM. While working there he started pitching business ideas but received no interest from the company which lead to him quitting his job. He started another company building fixed price device drives in Texas and managed the company for 10 years. Eventually he was put into the position where he needed to sell his company. His customers were starting to feel skeptical and worried about relying on a small company for their device drivers. So Jeff sold his company to Cisco then continued to work for them as part of the contract. As soon as that contract was over however, Jeff returned to Washington where he would start his next venture.