Don Ariel

Background

About Don Ariel

I dream big. I have my whole life. I learned mostly- to make big dreams happen, you have to imagine hard every day like it’s work. For a dream to become real, it has to serve a human purpose. To inspire others to bring your dream to life they need to share it and merge it with theirs. That means you have to be passionate and persistent in communicating the dream and it’s purpose. I am a student of human performance. I have spent my entire adult life gaining a precise understanding of the sciences and technologies surrounding all flavors of it. I have learned a few things. First, you only really teach children about to third grade. After that, they teach themselves whatever you find socially relevant. Pre-K to third grade is when you can have the greatest impact on a young learners life. Second, if you want a subject matter expert’s opinion, you have to let them put their hands on something. My first company designed and produced high wattage training infrastructures (mobile VR trailers and portables) that delivered combat practice environments in every state and territory as well as overseas locations. Giving an expert in precision gunnery a specification- is a way. Letting them grab a new apparatus to open their imaginations and listening hard gives you a whole different degree of better. Third, if you invest in solving the hardest problem a market has, often all the rest comes with it. This is called the ‘curb cut effect”. When you make a wheelchair accessible sidewalk, everyone else wants its benefits too. Raydon’s product efficiency, effectiveness, and economic advantages became apparent and attractive to premium users precisely because we designed it for geographically dispersed users with less money, less time, and more missions. Most of all, I love learning and I love sharing. I have traveled to countries on all six continents over the course of my life. People are amazing. Most are beyond kind. Embracing new moments of unique human interaction is the spice of life. I have never learned anything new from someone who thought like me, and I love to learn. When I pay forward human kindness, the reward is getting to experience and learn even more.