FOREWORD
A Quest for the Essence of Entrepreneurship
THE UNSTOPPABLES ISN’T JUST A BOOK. It’s the product of a quest—a shared quest by author Bill Schley and me to discover the keys to entrepreneurship and to share them with people all over America. Our goal is to double the number of entrepreneurs in our country—starting with you, our readers. And if you choose the entrepreneurial path, we want to double your chances of success. Those are the goals behind every chapter and every page of Bill’s book.
To understand this objective and why we’re so passionate about it, you need to know a little bit about us.
The company I helped found, Rackspace, was launched by three former college buddies from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, in 1998. We now employ more than 5,000 Rackers in locations from Texas to London to Hong Kong. Our mission: To provide hosting and cloud computing backed by “Fanatical Support” to more than 200,000 customers worldwide, including most of the Fortune 100.
Our world headquarters is located in a building we call the Castle—a once-abandoned mall in a forgotten neighborhood in San Antonio. My desk sits beside the space once occupied by Gingiss Formal Wear, where I rented my first baby-blue ruffled tuxedo for the high school prom. All the experts said we were crazy when we moved here, but I guess that’s how we do things at Rackspace: we listen to our Rackers and to our customers first. Only later do we check with the experts.
Today, customers come from all ...
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