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–About This Episode
Ray Hightower has worked and multiple fortune 500 companies, founded/sold his own tech company, and acquires multifamily real estate. He shares with us how his parents shaped his life into what it is today as well as how competition impacts his business today. To learn more about Ray, visit his website at rayhightower.com
Ray’s book recommendation: The Gap and The Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
BIO:
Raymond T. Hightower is a tech company founder and commercial real estate investor operating in the State of Arizona, USA. Growing a technology company for twenty-one years and ultimately selling it gave Hightower a boots-on-the-ground education in business execution and vanquishing obstacles.
Driven by a desire to improve the world through business, Hightower launched BizDayGlobal, a video podcast where business leaders serve others by sharing knowledge. Hightower is active with the Boy Scouts of America where he teaches future leaders about budgeting and time management.
In 2017, Hightower launched Bridgetown Partners. Bridgetown is a buyer of commercial real estate in Arizona and Texas, with a special focus on 50-120 unit multifamily properties.
Tech Leadership & Speaking
Hightower is the creator of several business and technology media outlets, including BizDayGlobal and WindyCityRails. He served as lead organizer of ChicagoRuby for ten years. He is a perpetual student, currently exploring parallelism, quantum computing, and IoT. Hightower is invited to speak at biz/tech conferences around the world, and he blogs on technology and business growth right here at RayHightower.com.
Early Career
Early in his career, Hightower worked in software development for Hewlett Packard, technical sales for IBM, and commercial real estate for Marcus & Millichap. He studied Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and completed his BS in Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Launching Companies
Hightower launched WisdomGroup as a network consultancy. He earned the Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE) certification and pulled the company into the Microsoft Certified Solution Provider (MCSP) ecosystem. Later, as the open source movement gained momentum, Hightower steered the company away from networking and toward software development with open source tools such as Ruby on Rails.
After the pivot to software development, WisdomGroup completed web and mobile projects in multiple industries: healthcare, financial services, high performance computing, e-commerce, travel, event management, and not-for-profit. Each successful project led to larger opportunities and a stronger reputation for the team, culminating in the sale of the company after twenty-one years of operation.
Hightower’s current focus, Bridgetown Partners, is a buyer and syndicator of multi-family properties.
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–Key Points From the Episode:
- . Ray’s journey
- Being owner of business
- Tips for future owners
- Knowledge gained in other companies
- Successful tips for business
- mpact of parents
- Relationship with brother
- Competition or cooperation
- Keeping competitiveness
- Book recommendation
- Contact Ray
- Useful information
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