Thank you for visiting Meet John Song. I’m an entrepreneur in the technology field, having been involved with six different startups. My passion is around putting great teams together and creating a collective momentum toward a common goal. People working well together can accomplish amazing things. I get excited about making that happen.
This blog represents my perspective on leadership, impacting work cultures, as well as insights for living a successful life. It does NOT necessarily represent the views or opinions of any company or organization that I am assoicated with.
Ciao,
John
COMPANY BIOS:
- SDL (Global customer information management) CEO Social Intelligence at SDL International (acquired Alterian)
- Alterian (Marketing Platform), VP, Social Strategy & Insights (acquired Lift9/Intrepid)
- Lift9 (Social media research & brand analytics), Founder & CEO
- Ascentium (Interactive Agency), Managing Partner (acquired Zerodash1)
- ZeroDash1 (Analytics & Optimization consultancy, sold to Ascentium), Founder & CEO
- ProAuto Seattle, Founder & President
- Noetix (BI Software), Managing Director for EMEA & shareholder
- ePods (Internet experience on a tablet), President & COO
- ARIS (IT consultancy on NASDAQ, sold to Ciber), Senior Vice President, co-founder

Great team work should be obvious





Hey, that picture looks like you were riding in those little taxis in Phuket Island!
Big John son, whut up. You should ahve told me back in college you were going to change the damn world. Perhaps you did, but at the time we were eating 12 hr old pizza and a bit hung over.
On a serious note, buddy I am so proud of you. Keep it up.
John — quite the blogger you are these days. Looks like you’re spending a bit of time dedicating yourself to this. Hope you don’t burn out.
Nice work though…like the idea a lot. Like you, I like “people stories.” Everyone has something to really add to this world & honestly without each and every one of them, this world would be different, right? Or maybe not…
Well, I’d like to believe it would. It would really suck to die and then nobody ever to really know that you lived. You’re actually helping these people profiled to definitely have some mark about their life at least online, if they haven’t already done it elsewhere. Nice…
Hi John,
I believe you went to TBS with my brother many many years ago. Nice to see you have done well!
Steven Hume
I live in Nevada, where Aha Toro is sold. However, how can someone in another state get it? Does you company mail? It is illegal for a private citizen to mail alcohol over a state line. Hope you can help me. I want to send some to friends. It is excellent.
Lynne Owomoyela
Lynne, I’ve forwarded your request to the distributor directly.
HI, had a good look through your blog, theres a lot of posts that I like. Any chance you could get in touch with me via email, thanks
Dear John Song,
It is so lucky for me to find this blog! I am Hyun Ju, a PhD student who is researching knowledge transfer between innovating start-up and incumbents. I am studying the cases of partnership between Noetix and Oracle, and Aris and SAP. I definitely need to listen to your opinion on the knowledge communication from the perspective of innovating firms. Could I have a chance to send you a detail email and get some comments from you? It would be invaluable inputs to my research.
I hope you could see this message.
Thank you in advance and happy New Year!
Best,
Hyun Ju
Hi John, this is Patsy McGovern. I just read your blog about Pat from April 2010. It would be great if you could contact me: http://www.pamperedchef.biz/patsymcgovern