Vladimir Baranov, tell me about your vision.
Great, great question, Jackson.
So I would like to be a multiplier of executives
in the industry that I feel I can make the best impact in.
I've been an individual contributor, I've been an executive,
but I wanted to make sure that whatever effort I make
helps the most number of people.
And I think I've landed in a place
where being an executive coach
provides me that opportunity to make the most positive impact
and growth on individuals who then can impact the industry
of which I support, which is science,
deep tech and technology.
Wow, that's awesome.
And it reminds me of one of my favorite books
that is also my mouse pad, The Effective Executive.
That's great.
And there was this commercial I saw when I was a kid.
I was in high school, I believe.
And little kid, his dad says,
the kid says, I wanna be a teacher.
And the dad says, like, wait, don't you wanna be a doctor?
You'll make more money and you'll be able to help people.
And the kid says, dad, I wanna be a teacher
so I can teach others to become doctors.
And it's just like awesome, humbling moment.
I was like, I remember thinking about that, like, wow.
That's such a cool concept.
And then Bill Gates, when he was being asked
in his many documentary series about eradicating polio
and why is he after that or malaria?
And why is he doing what he's doing?
The person interviewing him said,
Bill, that's not inspiring to people.
To look over the individual need.
And he said, I don't care.
I'm not trying to inspire people.
I'm trying to optimize.
I'm trying to optimize
and make things better collectively.
It's not about the ego and self-centered nature of progress.
It's about empowering more people to help with the progress.
So I see correlation between your thought
and what he's up to.
Can you expand on that for me?
Well, it's a very honorable of you
to compare me to the thoughts of Bill Gates.
I wish I had the same impact on my checking account, but.
What's that?
I kind of felt the philosophy of individual work
has to be supported by some sort of destination.
And vision is a good idea to replace that.
Where we want to have a purpose, right?
As individuals that our work means something for somebody.
And I was kind of asking question
as I was progressing through my career.
How can I be at the place where I can make the most impact
on the thoughts and values that I believe in the most?
It's similar to the saying of Archimedes, right?
Who asked for a pivot point
because he was gonna use the longest lover in the world
to move the earth.
And I'm trying to kind of be the human version of that
because in the end, humanity is part of me
and I'm part of humanity.
And without either, I don't exist.
And sort of like I came to a logical conclusion
that my existence is the most purposeful
when I can impact the most humanity.
I love it.
That's really cool.
I was in my first six weeks in Uruguay
helping families down there.
I was down there for two years.
And that first six weeks, I was very overwhelmed
by the amount of work that we wanted to accomplish
and things I felt like I wanted to do.
And I was sitting at my desk and I received this vision
of me pulling the world with a chain.
And I don't know if the world was moving around
but it felt like it.
But all of a sudden the people that I was serving with
in this little town, they start picking up ropes
and pulling along beside me.
And I started putting down the chain
and like just being amazed that, whoa, wait a second.
Now there's lots of people pulling in the same direction.
Now it's really starting to move.
And I started to hand out ropes to others.
And I realized that I needed to let go of the chain
and I needed to be empowering others
to do a similar factor.
So I'm grateful for you being on Vision Pros
and talking about this
because that continues to be my work in this life.
It's how do we empower more people to contribute
to the collective good and the process of moving forward?
We can't do that without executive coaches.
So we're gonna need to dive deeper on this topic for sure.
Thank you for being here today.
I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.
I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions
as these episodes continue to move forward.
This is gonna get more and more fun.
We'll have more and more engagement as well.
I invite people to participate in the show
and thank you for giving us your time and attention.
Have an excellent time building out your vision
and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.