Mario Harik

Shane Parrish: How does a software engineer end up as the CEO of one of the largest trucking companies in the world? 

Mario Harik: Well, I think engineering gives you a very good roadmap and a very good framework of solving problems. I have young kids, and whenever we have something that gets broken or something we want to build, I always tell them, “What do engineers do? They build things and they fix things.” And I think in the world of business, you’re dealing every day with either problems [you want to solve] or goals you want to accomplish, and an engineering mindset gives you a framework of how to solve these problems.