The Global Studies program at Bishop O'Connell kicked off the school year with an afternoon session with special guest speaker, Paul Singh. Singh is a 1999 graduate of Bishop O'Connell. He has founded several startup tech companies and spent some time at PBworks, AOL and Symantec. He is currently the founder of Disruption Corporation, which provides research, investment and advice in the in Crystal City. He is also a general partner of Disruption's post-seed venture capital arm, Crystal Tech Fund.
Singh shared his perspectives on the future business environment, telling the students, "The web is getting bigger and the world is getting smaller."
He shared stories of well known Internet companies to give the students perspectives on the labor force behind the scenes. In this discussion, he also reinforced a theme that our students have certainly heard before: be aware of your online identities, and realize that future employers are looking at you from that lens too. He called this "online breadcrumbs."
The school library was "standing room only" for this session, and students stayed around well beyond the formal presentation to have the opportunity to further engage with the speaker.
Read more about Singh in the April 10, 2014 edition of the Washington Post.
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