Interviews

Victor Grazi

Q: Victor Grazi, thanks for meeting with me. I’m eager to hear your career story because I know you’ve had so much success in your career. Let’s start with you sharing a little bit about how you got started in your technical career and some of the things that you were doing when you first entered.

A: I’ve always been in love with technology.

Many years ago, we had a family factory: a linen business. We were delivering things per order. We’d get a cluster of orders, and somebody would go and pick out an order, and if anything needed to be manufactured, they’d go upstairs and they’d manufacture a few dozen of that order. I looked at this system and said, “Well, what are we doing here? We’re manufacturing little bits of this and little bits of that. They have these computers now that mean you can consolidate these things!”

So, we bought a computer, I learned Business Basic, and I...