Dana Hawthorne: Building Companies, Betting on AI, and Pushing Through Self-Doubt

Podcast: Mile High Success Podcast · Nick Elder and Joey Schneider

Opublikowano: 2026-10-08

What does it really take to build a company, take risks, and keep moving when self-doubt shows up? In this episode of the Mile High Success Podcast, Nick Elder sits down with Dana Hawthorne, founder of Modernize and a longtime technology entrepreneur. Dana has built three technology services companies, successfully exited two of them, and grown Modernize to around 80 people. Dana shares how his career started in recruiting and how asking questions helped him learn the technology business from the inside. He talks about the mentors who shaped his career, why relationships have played such...