Never Listen to Advice with Edward Vick | C-Suite HotSeat E17

Edward Vick founded EVS Translations - a language services provider - in Germany in 1991. The company operates across Europe and the USA helping multinationals, SMEs and government institutions to manage the demand for multilingual digital content and information. It is consistently ranked as a world top 100 LSP by market research companies in the localization space, and as a world top 20 LSP for the finance sector. Despite being raised in Canada and the UK, Edward lives in Germany with his family. He enjoys collecting art, as well as reading good literature. Sarah Hickey, VP of Research, Nimdzi Insights VP of Research at Nimdzi Insights by day, podcaster at The Troublesome Terps by night, conference interpreter DE - EN by trade Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Is dedicated to providing localization, globalization and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers. Head to https://www.nimdzi.com/ for cutting edge market research and consulting in the language industry. Visit https://multilingual.com to catch up with the latest news of the language industry. This show is made possible thanks to a collaboration between MulitLingual Media and Nimdzi Insights. Oscar Betancourt - Video Director and Producer Evelyn Najarian - Communications & Marketing, MultiLingual Isabel Romero-Ruiz - Communications & Marketing, Nimdzi Insights Nika Allahverdi - Product Antonella Tiezzi - Design 00:00 Edward Vick 00:49 What does your company do? 01:47 What was your dream career as a child? 03:15 How do you like to spend your free time? 03:39 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 04:06 First breakthrough moment 04:56 What inspired you to start your company? 06:04 Your biggest failure 08:15 What makes you a great leader? 10:11 Do you have a mentor? 11:00 Advice for entrepreneurs