Basically, I work really hard in life, I did a lot of things at a very young age. I got educated through a path that could not have been predicted. I sold companies that could have just as well gone bankrupt. The distance between failure and success is so minuscule you probably can't even see it with a magnifying microscope. The same story could have ended up in so many other alternative endings and solutions. So I cannot tell you there is a predetermined path or divine intervention in this.

Do you believe you are guided and protected by a superior force?
If there is such a thing, I was not purveyed to the desire of that divine power in pushing things around. So I do not assume it, nor do I accept that everything in my life has been designed by some top force. I just assume that if it is there, it works in mysterious ways. And if it is there, I need as much help from it as possible. I will need all the divine intervention there can be to make this mission happen!

What is spirituality for you in your day to day life?
I practice Zen in my business experience. I continuously evaluate what I do, trying to simplify everything until you cannot take anything away from it without breaking it. I work through continuous processes in which I try to simplify again and again what it is that we offer, buy, sell, the value proposition we bring, the relationship with the people we work with, how we maintain and improve it and so on. That simplicity keeps me focused.

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