“When I started my first company, Adjoined, in 2000, my wife (also a Gator) was pregnant with our first child. She had just quit her well-paying job to be a stay-at-home mom, and I took a 50 percent-plus pay cut to become a startup CEO. Then, the tech ‘bubble’ burst, the public equity markets crashed and I lost well over half of our relatively modest savings. In late 2005, we sold Adjoined for a quarter billion dollars. I’ve learned it’s important to manage your emotions to a point of continuous productivity. Don’t get too high on achievements or too low on defeats.”
virtustream.com
Rodney J. Rogers, BSISE ‘87
Co-Founder/Chairman/CEO
Software
Bethesda, MD