Meeting With Candace Johnson
Last Night I attended another Knowledge Network meeting. These are great networking meetings that are held every month. They always have a good speaker.
The speaker last night was Candace Johnson. Candace is an international telecommunications expert and entrepreneur, and one of the 50 most powerful businesswomen in Europe. She is co-initiator of SES ASTRA and SES Global, one of the largest satellite systems in the world. She is also the founder and president of Europe Online, the world’s first Internet via satellite network and is the founder of the continent’s first independent, private trans-border satellite communications company, Teleport Europe-Loral Cyberstar.
She gave a great presentation about how Entrepreneurs can make serious changes in the world, for Good. She mentioned many great business people like Bill Gates and Richard Branson have started to make serious changes to the way the world is. Can we imagine a world without Microsoft ? What would it be like ?
It was thought provoking stuff. I’ve known all alone that my reasons for being and Entrepreneur were not to make money. I have a deep feeling that I would like to create change and have a positive impact on the world around me. Entrepreneurs can do it because lets face it, our politicians aren’t going to save the world!
After her talk I briefly spoke to her over the buffet. She was very interested in 1upSearch and how we can make positive changes to over business peoples lives by helping them find business success by using the Internet. A great compliment!
All in all a great speaker. I score her 8/10.
Dear Alex,
I was delighted to meet you and I really do think you are offering a unique, valuable service. Keep it up and remember what I said, “Never accept no for an answer, never give up, and never go away, even when others want you to!”
All the best,
Candace Johnson