Danny Ellis turned down a job at SpaceX to start a company that applies his drone expertise to the renewable energy landscape. Kurt Heikkinen spent seven years at PeopleSoft before building Software as a Service (SaaS) models of his own. Both learned first-hand how difficult, and ultimately rewarding, a startup can be.
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