Rally Software

Today I'm sitting down with Don Hazell, a sales leader, entrepreneur, mentor, and CU Boulder alum whose career has been shaped by curiosity and community.

From considering medicine and journalism to finding his way into technology sales and helping build Rally Software in Boulder, Don's path took turns he never expected.

We talk about knowing when to take a chance and building a career that leaves room for the people and experiences that make life meaningful.

Because as it turns out, you don't need the whole path figured out to build a life you're proud of.

So I was selling to companies that were using computers to write their own programs to manage inventory and sales and manufacturing.

Yeah.

I saw that you kind of like transition from working at those more established sales companies and then you started working and building Rally software.

Can you tell me a little bit more about that and what made you want to take that leap into entrepreneurship and kind of what was happening there?

And, you know, Denver was on the up and up.

You know, we had a handful of companies at the time that were starting to settle in that became really big businesses like Ping Identity, Syngrid, Rally Software at the time, which was ultimately sold.

But they were finding Denver as a home to really scale companies.

So if I got to 100 employees, Boulder kind of gets small.