Looking for Unconventional Inspirational Quotes? Consider Your Rejections.Hundreds of investors turned me down, so I put their rejections on a wall for everyone to see. It quickly became our call to succeed.

I was co-CIO of MetLife when I got tired of waiting for solutions to the problems I knew were holding enterprises back. So in 2017, after 25 years in corporate, I left to build the solution myself.

I foundedUnqork, a platform that helps large enterprises create complex, customsoftwarewithout writing a single line of code. "We will become theonlytechnology every company is using" — that was the pitch. Then I set out for both coasts to raise a lot of money.