Gil Penchina, Wikia The Contrasts of a Big Company and a Small Start-Up Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia, and an 8-year veteran of eBay, contrasts his experiences and lessons of working in a big company with heading a small start-up.
Gil Penchina, Wikia Entering a Global Market Wikia CEO Gil Penchina discusses the steps that entrepreneurs should take when entering a new and unfamiliar global market.
Gil Penchina, Wikia Learning from Failures Penchina shares some of his failures and discusses lessons learned from them.
Gil Penchina, Wikia Career Advice Penchina emphasizes the importance of people skills and reveals some lessons he wish he knew when he was in school.
Gil Penchina, Wikia Working in a Start-up Penchina shares his thoughts on the differences in working in a start-up versus a big company and the skills he leveraged while moving from a big company like eBay to Wikia.
Gil Penchina, Wikia Skills Learned in School Penchina describes the exact facts and skills he learned in engineering school and business school that he finds useful today while running his business.
Gil Penchina, Wikia Luck: Combination of Timing and Preparation Penchina attributes most of his success to luck, which he believes is a combination of good timing and some preparation. He says that he has been able to get to where he wanted as he has consistently stuck to his plan.
Gil Penchina, Wikia Finding Entrepreneurs Penchina discusses the process of finding entrepreneurs and then investing in them.
Gil Penchina, Wikia Angel Investing Penchina discusses his interest and involvement in angel investing.
Gil Penchina, Wikia Joining eBay Gil Penchina, CEO of Wikia, talks about the things that attracted him to eBay and the vision he had of where the company was going when he joined.
Gil Penchina, Wikia Transformation of a Start-up Penchina discusses how a start-up like eBay has transformed over time to a big company.