The best and most challenging thing that happened during James Mauler’s professional career was when he was terminated from the company he worked for in the early 1990s. This gave him the motivation he needed to start his own firm, and he launched Cadnetics the very next day. In this episode, Jim candidly discusses the meaning of this pivotal moment in his career and the risk he took in getting a cutting-edge tech company off the ground. He also discusses why he left college in order to pursue a more hands-on approach to his learning and how this paid off for him in the long run.