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Avinoam Nowogrodski, Founder & CEO at Clarizen
Age: 55
Lives in: Tel Aviv
Significant others: Married + 4
Company’s main offices:
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Regional Headquarters: San Mateo (CA), Tel Aviv (Israel) and London (UK).
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Clik here to view.The company also has offices around the world, including Australia, France, New Zealand, Russia, South Africa and Taiwan.
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What does your company do and why is it unique?
Clarizen is a leader in collaborative work management. It brings together cross-company project management, configurable workflow automation and purposeful collaboration in an enterprise-grade platform.
Clarizen’s unique platform unites teams, reduces communication overload, and provides extensive visibility at any level of the enterprise, so that everyone can work more effectively, adapt to changes and achieve their objectives.
What are you most proud of in your company?
The culture. It’s a culture that encourages asking the right questions versus coming up with the answers, and challenging versus justifying.
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Some of the folks at Clarizen (click to enlarge)
More from Avinoam on why a company’s culture is part of its intellectual property >
Who inspires you/who do you admire and why?
Greatness inspires me. It is achieved when you are ready to change; I admire people who understand and embrace obstacles, because it’s a sign that they’re headed for greatness. Steve Jobs was a great example of this: He was thrown out of his own company, came back, changed and improved things, and at the end of the day became the ‘big kahuna’ – again. It’s an amazing story.
Which other companies do you admire and why?
I admire companies that have managed to understand their customers’ exact needs, and basically solve a use case for those customers. Many good companies achieved this, like Marketo, Salesforce, Zendesk and Workday, for example. These companies all managed to articulate the story of the problems they were aiming to solve really well, before developing their solutions.
What do you do for fun?
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Clik here to view.Dirt bike riding
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Clik here to view.Downhill biking
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Clik here to view.Spending time with family in The Alps. There’s nothing nicer than spending time in The Alps…
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Avinoam: “There is nothing nicer than spending time in The Alps…”
iPhone or Android? iPhone
Favorite Food: Asian and Italian food
Favorite TV Show: I really don’t watch much TV
Favorite technological gadgets/apps right now:
I don’t have many gadgets, but I do enjoy playing games on my phone while I’m flying. I use all the ‘popular’ apps, like Uber, OpenTable, etc.
Favorite go-to websites/blogs for news on your industry/technology:
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Clik here to view.I read a lot of stuff around culture and leadership.
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Clik here to view.I read the Andreessen Horowitz blog, Inc magazine, and articles on LinkedIn published by my network.
The best business advice you ever received:
1) “You don’t have the luxury to be frustrated”
2) The art of really listening. It’s a question of maturity, and one of the lessons I try to teach as I believe it really makes a difference in people’s lives.
More words of wisdom from Avinoam:
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Clik here to view.Zen and the Art of Decision-Making [VIDEO]
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Clik here to view.Everyone wins in a more democratic workplace [VIDEO]
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Clik here to view.3 Keys to empowered, effective employees [VIDEO]
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Clik here to view.The Rewards of Listening from Clarizen@Work 2015 [VIDEO]
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Clik here to view.About the Future of Work [VIDEO]
What do you think would really surprise people to learn about you?
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Clik here to view.I was a terrible student! I was thrown out of school three times. I didn’t pay attention to learning and didn’t like to be told what to do, but I managed to do well in university later on.
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Clik here to view.I enjoy doing tricks on my mountain bike. I used to go to the Embarcadero every Saturday with my son and we would do tricks on our bikes and people would stand around and watch.
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Avinoam demonstrating his prowess with his mountain bike
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