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Ask Forgiveness, Not Permission: Chuck the Lifelong Tinkerer
Chuck went from wiring bicycle dynamos as a kid to now being a pioneer in AI and creating a bar built on six continents. Here is his story.   Chuck sits down with Katie in his Harvard shirt to go back to the start. He talks about how he works best under stress, how he slows down and absorbs while everybody else panics, and why when a deadline slips he is the one who walks in, delivers the bad news, and hands over the solution in the same breath. By day he is a product manager building the next product for who you will be five years from now. But he keeps coming back to the same idea: a product is not successful until the user is happy with it.   He walks through predicting an onion shortage in management school, surveying five star hotel chefs about what they would substitute, and watching cabbage double in price six months later.   For the tinkerers, the fixers, the furniture flippers, and anyone who keeps a crazy idea brewing until it is real. If you like real conversations with people who build things with their hands and stay humble about it, this one is for you.   1. Who is Chuck?  A friend Katie met through Harvard's Program for Leadership Development, a product manager in Tech and the owner of a bar called Six Cocktails.   2. What does he do for work?  He is a product manager on cloud and software teams, focused on AI for the last three plus years after earlier work in the XR space.   3. What is Six Cocktails?  His bar in California, where the menu rotates through six continents so customers can pick a country and try a different cocktail each time.   4. What is the onion and cabbage story?  In management school he predicted a drought would spike onion prices and push people to substitute cabbage, surveyed five star hotel chefs to check, and watched cabbage double in price six months later.   5. Where can you find Chuck?  He is barely on social media, so the two places to catch him are LinkedIn and behind the bar at Six Cocktails. Where to find Chuck Thota https://www.linkedin.com/in/chuck-thota-8726205/ Where to find Spread The Positive?   Socials  https://www.facebook.com/spreadthepositive.net https://www.instagram.com/spreadthepositive/   Website https://www.spreadthepositive.net/  
Spread The Positive Podcast
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