Yoga anyone…

Last week we met the King of flexibilty Vince Thomas founder and CEO of Billhighway.com. The company has been in existence for 8 yrs. What started out as a way of creating a system that helped his roommates pay bills on time has turned into a lucrative business. The 29 year old now runs a $500 million company. Billhighway.com is a web based financial services platform for both organizations and consumers with an emphasis on groups and peoples social matters.

The company was founded in 1999 while he was attending EMU on a baseball scholarship. He came from a family full of entrepreneurs that mostly own restaurants. Like most successful entrepreneurs do he recognized a problem and created a business to solve it. His story is one of many winding roads with many changes of direction along the way.

The lesson I received, was this precious pearl of wisdom from Vince, was being aware of when change is needed. In order to succeed you must be flexible. You must learn to recognize when you need to do something different. Many businesses go under because they won’t make necessary changes when the brutal facts are in front of them. If Vince didn’t learn that valuable lesson early he wouldn’t be telling me his success story.