Building a sophisticated Internet of Things company (that can change the world)

Eric Simone, ClearBlade, B2B

Today’s guest is somebody who was actually trying to create a much simpler business and then ended up with one that was a much bigger vision than he expected.

Eric Simone is the founder of ClearBlade, an edge computing software company that enables enterprise to engineer and run secure, real-time scalable Internet of Things applications.

Eric is actually working on real problems that in many ways are going to seem less exciting to people but have a bigger impact on the world. I want to talk about how he did it.

Eric Simone

ClearBlade

Eric Simone is the founder of ClearBlade, an edge computing software company that enables enterprise to engineer and run secure, real-time scalable Internet of Things applications.

Andrew: Hey there, freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner. I’m the founder of Mixergy where I interview entrepreneurs about how they built their businesses for an audience of people who are trying to change the world. I know that sounds a little ridiculous. It sounds cliché, but I do believe that it’s possible.

And today’s guest is kind of smiling because I’m going to guess, Eric, why you’re kind of smiling at that because I feel like you’re looking around at the world of the internet and saying, “Hey, you know what? We were supposed to change the world, and for a little while there we did change the world. And then what do we do? Create a better social network? We just changed the social networking landscape.” And then the people who do say they’re changing the world with Internet of Things where my lock can lock itself, my oven can cook by itself if I just shout at my speaker device. You’re looking at...

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