Growing up in Chicago-the headquarters of United Airlines-Muhney wanted specifically to fly for United, but his dreams were dashed when he learned that United did not allow pilots who wore glasses at the time. When he was a teen, he aspired to be a pilot (similar to Tenable Network Security CEO Ron Gula-the focus of a previous “In Their Own Words”). He chose not to elaborate further on that experience. He remembers that the first concert he went to was The Doors, at a marijuana smoke-filled venue in Chicago. He likes a range of music from The Beatles and classic Motown to smooth jazz. That is our ideal customer.” Meet Mike MuhneyĪs a young man growing up in Chicago, Muhney loved baseball and looked up to Cubs players Ernie Banks and Billy Williams. Muhney explains, “The people who want to succeed, and are looking to succeed, know that they can only do so if they improve, enhance, and expand their networks and the quality as well as the quantity of it. “Privacy is gone, confidences are publicized, everybody can seemingly know everything about everyone without anybody knowing anything unique about anyone.” “Look, whether you use technology or not, the culture we live in today is comprised of information overload-memory-abdicating, nanosecond-attention-span, short-term, “what's in it for me" attitude-conditions,” says Muhney. Regardless, Muhney says vipOrbit is focused on the “real” aspect of creating and maintaining meaningful relationships. Of course, as an analyst and journalist I’m sort of in the voyeur business, so I’m not the best measure of superficial relationships. I apparently have more than 30,000 people paying attention to what I post and say on various social networks, but only a few hundred of those are personal acquaintances, probably only 50 or so are meaningful, and I can count on my fingers the number of relationships close enough to come pick me up if my car breaks down at 3am. I can vouch for that from my own personal experience. He rails against trends in technology that he feels enable a superficial illusion of relationships, but fall far short of the reality. Muhney has no problem elaborating on why he created vipOrbit. We believe in the infinite potential of closer relationships." The vipOrbit vision statement sums up the goal more succinctly: “People Matter.
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