Tom Nault

By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud I deleted two programs this week. More will follow. One was Calendly, a program that allowed people to schedule time with me on their own. Over time, I became overwhelmed by people who had no problem burning up my time trying to sell me something or to "pick my brain." I can’t afford to have it picked all the time. It was taking far more time to just politely say no than to not have it at all. Gone. The other was Reclaim.ai , a program intended to block out...

By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud I’ve been attending CES for more than two decades, and almost every year a group from Hudson Cloud comes with me. This January we had 21 people in our group, including members of the Hudson Cloud team. In many ways it feels like a reunion. We’ve all come from different directions over the years, but CES is still where we end up sitting around comparing notes, challenging each other, and trying to understand where technology is actually going. Our group spans...

By Tom Nault, CEO, Hudson Cloud Systems I’ve never liked meaningless company slogans. “Do what you love in the service of those who love what you do.” It’s a meaningless word pretzel. Another one: “The Quiet Company.” Okay. The series Silicon Valley made fun of meaningless corporate slogans and it was a running joke throughout the show. The whole “Making the World a Better Place” was later, “We’re making the world a better place… through scalable, distributed, cloud-optimized solutions.” Of...