About this episode
Brent Kirby has run Kurb Media since 2009. He builds software for startups and Fortune 100 companies, and he has kept the same handful of clients for ten and fifteen years by doing the thing most consultants won't: telling them when their idea is bad, even when staying quiet would have paid better.
In this episode he talks about backing into engineering as a self-described art kid, why he can't work nine to five, what it cost to keep his company small while everyone told him to scale, and what changed about his work when his mother started losing her sight.
Every guest on Ctrl Shift answers the same first question: when you were younger, what did you want to be when you grew up? Brent's answer was the same as DeVanté's.
Brent Kirby Kurb Media: https://kurbmedia.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brentkirby/ Accessibility: https://kurbmedia.com/accessibility/
Brent’s mother, Judy Kirby, wrote a book. Blurred Vision collects a decade of her poems, writing and photographs, every photo her own, and asks whether blurred vision is only a physical condition. She was diagnosed with Stargardt’s macular degeneration at twenty.
Blurred Vision: https://blurredvisionbooks.com/
DeVanté Pickering Pick 2 Solutions: https://www.pick2solutions.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/devante-pickering/
Ctrl Shift. Shortcuts for building longevity. Produced by Vision Media Partners.
https://www.pick2solutions.com/podcast/
