Hi there, I'm Shawn. I've snuck into the tech industry and over the last 25 years I've found my way as a software engineer, consultant, and a tech startup founder. I've pitched my own tech startups to investors over 120 times, experienced two startup accelerators, and somehow managed to raise venture capital investment six times.

So I was white-boarding and explaining some stuff at work... you know—the usual tech industry nerdy-code-architecture type of thing... when my client started calling me a tech genius. I certainly didn't feel like I was one of those. But I began to realize...