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July 27, 2025 59 mins

#43 – Josh Tarbutton: Accidentally Awesome

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  • Likes Sugar Creek Brewery in Charlotte, NC.
  • They have a master cicerone (you’ll have to listen to find out)
  • Started working at age 12.
  • Got GED and went to Georgia Tech.
  • PhD dissertation was on CNC machining software
  • In the Army reserve in Iraq, he was a fuel specialist who actually knew about fuel.
  • Bravo team name is partially from the SEAL team and partially from Italian Bravo!
  • You do and learn a lot at product development firms.
  • B-players in an A-system yields success.
  • Engineers are driven to do their best.
  • It is easy to mess up simple.
  • Professors need to bring in money and publish
  • Engineers paint the laws of the universe on the canvas of the world.
  • Learning engineering is like learning cooking.
  • College professors need some education classes.
  • There’s no sympathy for professors and billionaires
  • Being a professor is like running a startup.
  • Inc 500 two years in a row (maybe 3?)

Reach Josh:

Joshua@bravoteam.tech

www.bravoteam.tech

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Hat tip to Joseph McDade for free use of his music "Mirrors".

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