Play to Your Strengths With CEO Spence Green | C-Suite HotSeat E07

Spence Green is Lilt’s Co-Founder and CEO. Prior to founding Lilt, Spence worked as a fellow at XSeed Capital and in software and research at Google, where he worked on Google Translate. He received a PhD and MS in Computer Science from Stanford and a BS from the University of Virginia. He has published papers on machine translation, language parsing, and mixed-initiative systems and given talks on translator productivity. Hosts: Inge Boonen, VP of Consulting, Nimdzi Insights Inge is dedicated to providing localization, globalization, and multicultural insights to enterprise companies and language service providers. Gabriel Karandyšovský, Chief Operations Officer, Nimdzi Insights Gabriel specializes in localization, creative writing, business development & project management. He helps clients along the way to international market expansion one research or data-supported step at a time. Learn more about the show and sign up for the mailing list on: https://www.nimdzi.com/c-suite-hotseat/ 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. 00:00 Welcome 00:40 What does your company do? 00:55 Your dream career as a kid 01:17 How do you like to spend your free time? 01:34 3 destinations you'd like to visit 02:01 What is the best advice you've ever been given? 02:50 First Breakthrough 03:25 When did you realize you could make some good money? 03:58 Your biggest challenge and failure 05:01 The best moment of your career 05:45 Most innovative thing you've ever done? 07:03 How to motivate your team 07:32 What makes you a great leader? 07:47 Pet peeve when it comes to clients 07:54 Future plans? 08:47 The workplace of the future 09:28 Advice for entrepreneurs