Introduction
I’ve been working in technology companies my whole career. I’ve been working and competing with genius engineers and technicians and although I’m an engineer too, I was always shocked by how brilliant some of them are.
What made me survive and even go forward in this environment was my ability to describe sophisticated systems in simple language, and to convince clients, funders and employees to sign lucrative contracts.
One of my friends at work called me “Queen of credit”. And the ironic thing is that we didn't have a credit system back in my home country. Most financial interactions were by cash or debit or cheques.
I wrote letters, went to meetings and on phone calls to convince banks, investors and angels to invest in our small business. And that was how we grew from only me, to an established company with 20 staff.
When I moved to Canada, I started my technology company, Rahsam, here too. But everything doesn't go the way we...