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Diverse experience
On a more personal note, John’ s career prior to Lime helped to shape his strategic approach to growing and developing businesses.“ I started out as a manufacturing engineer in the electronics division at Ford Motor Company, and while I was there, I had the opportunity to go to Stanford for graduate school,” he reflects.“ Growing up in a small town in the Midwest of the United States, Stanford was a turning point both personally and professionally. The experience opened my eyes to a completely new world of possibilities. I eventually left Ford in Michigan and moved to Silicon Valley to gain my first experience in a startup that developed one of the first high-performance fax-to-email machines and became a pioneer in internet faxing.
“ My friends at Ford thought I was crazy to leave. But from that first startup, I’ ve been fortunate to have varied career opportunities across multiple industries, including several other startups, with diverse businesses such as last-mile broadband wireless networking, high performance computing, and data center virtualization. One of the startups was acquired by Cisco, and I learned a ton about global supply chain management during the five years I spent there. I left Cisco to try my hand at consumer electronics, and joined a small company in Santa Barbara California called Sonos, which at the time was
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