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Identify What You Desire with David Cross
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In this episode, Kris Sykes and Brian Goldsack talk to David Cross, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer for Oracle. David talks about his illustrious career, starting from serving in the US Navy and his transition to the IT sector, where he worked for industry giants such as Microsoft and Google. He also got involved in the venture capital space where he invested in several tech startups.
David’s drive to constantly improve himself is invigorating. His work experience shows his innate desire to learn as much as he can about the things that interest him. And yet, his end goal for himself is relatively simple: his idea of power is that of a life that affords him the choice to do what he loves.
HIGHLIGHTS
- From serving in the US Navy to working in the IT sector
- The persisting drive to improve oneself
- Identify your core values
- Seek mentors and learn from them
- Always be learning new skills
- Strive to make others successful as well
- Exploring cryptography and cybersecurity
- Cybersecurity for the layman: Keep everything up to date
- In the end, investing is also about luck
QUOTES
David: “It's not about being better than anyone else. It's just more of like, okay, this is what it means to be successful for that particular role or that particular position or a particular company. Then I just want to make sure I do it.”
David: “I'm going to go back to my military experience and something that I believe in is really it's about having the right values and principles in place that needs to be your foundation. If you don't know what your values and principles are, then you have no starting point. You have no dry land to stand upon.”
David: "The most valuable people are those who make other people successful."
Kris: “Don't let anything stand in your way. If that's what you want to do, you have to do the work where you are first, and you have to prove to people that you're willing to do it.”
David: “Everything's connected to the internet. That's why we say the internet of things. And I think that's one of the challenges that we're all facing in society is that everything is now connected. You know, everything is using a chip. Everything has software, and that means everything needs to be protected.”
David: "My power is that I have the best work-life choice, right. Is that I am able to make the choices that I want into what I do in my career when I do in my life. And I'm happy about it."
You can connect and learn more about David through the links below:
- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%E2%98%A2%EF%B8%8F-david-b-cross-b856657/
- Travel Blog: https://davidcrosstravels.com/
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