Born in the heart of Silicon Valley, Doron David has entrepreneurship in his blood.
From a young age, he was exposed to the wonders of this burgeoning tech capital, and he knew he needed to be a part of it.
With a hunger for knowledge, Doron studied abroad in Israel after high school where he began his first entrepreneurial adventure. He started a small food business that reached profitability within the first two weeks. Having tasted the startup world, he later sold his business before heading back to New York to study entrepreneurship.
As he worked toward his degree, Doron learned there was no better way to study a subject than being thrust into the throes of it. Within a month of returning to New York, he was brought on as the VP of Operations for startup KIS Group, where he remained for two and a half years.
When it was time for a new challenge, Doron met fellow classmate and entrepreneur Adam Moisa. He was in the beginning stages of founding Cloudifyd, a service that links storage clouds together, where Doron now works as the VP of Operations.
For this edition of Member Spotlight, a series where we showcase entrepreneurs of emerging companies, we chatted with Doron about his hunger to learn and his love for the cloud.
I knew what it was like to not have any support when you’re first starting out. Adam had a great business idea, but it needed some structure. Because I had operational experience, I offered to help with his new venture. Immediately, Adam asked me to partner with him, and once I graduated, I said “Let’s do this”.
Cloudifyd is like the Superman of clouds. Our technology bridges the gap between services like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Facebook by forcing them to speak a “universal language.” It’s like a dashboard for your digital life that allows users to accumulate all of their storage and organize content from several services into one place.
I’m all about organization. Knowing that I can use Cloudifyd to organize all of my documents, photos, music, notes, bookmarks, and web clippings is amazing. But the fact that I can now share those things with anyone without having to worry about what cloud they use is what really puts a smile on my face.
Be active about wanting to learn. I do a lot of online reading. I watch TV with my phone in my hand, and I Google everything that I don’t know or that I want to know more about. If i’m watching Jimmy Fallon, I’m going to Google and read seven different articles while I’m watching the show because I want to know about each guest. I’m not shy; I’m not scared to go and learn new things.
Be ready for the ride! Many people think being an entrepreneur means showing up in shorts and a tee shirt at 11 a.m. and working in an office fully-stocked with beer. But the reality is that odds are against us. We have to make sure we work harder than everyone else to earn a spot at the top.
Photographs by Lauren Kallen