- Name: Juan Manuel Urraburu
- Title: Co-Founder at ProRM
- Location: Montevideo, Uruguay
- What product forums are you most active in? RM/COBOL and Visual COBOL
- What was your very first job ever? I worked for ten years at the government office of education in Uruguay.
- Tell us about your career journey: I started as administrative while studying Oceanography at University. I started studying programming some years after and I entered a software company as a Cobol programmer. I worked there for at least ten years and during that period I contacted Liant Software, the company behind RM/COBOL and we started distributing their products in our country. Some years after they offered us to distribute RM/COBOL in Argentina so we founded ProRM in 1996. We opened ProRM in Brazil and Uruguay in 2000 and in Chile in 2002.
- What did you want to be when you were younger? I studied medicine and my idea was to enter the University to be a doctor. When I visited the University and saw that it would take more than eight years to get the degree, I changed and entered into marine biology (Oceanography).
- Who is your role model? Interesting. I consider myself an entrepreneur. Many people have inspired me throughout my life, both professionally and personally.
- What do you like to do in your free time? I used to like running, but lately I've changed it to walking. I like soccer, riding a bicycle, photography, the beach and sharing barbecues with my family and friends.
- Best piece of advice you have ever received? What you're looking for is inside of you.
- What technology innovation made the most impact on your life? Internet. I had the chance to see the whole process, from its beginnings to today.
- What is one important skill every person should have? Empathy.
- What is the best perk that you have had at a job? Learning to speak English. That opened up many opportunities for me to work internationally.
- What is the most important personal attribute that you bring to your job? Good humor.
- Who would you like to exchange roles with? Elon Musk.
- What is one of the things on your bucket list? Businesses go back to using COBOL and buying licenses and services like before
- If you could only take one physical item with you on a deserted island, what it would be? Water!
- What is a recent book that you have enjoyed? Hear Yourself.
- What do you consider your greatest work achievement? Building a company in four countries and have made sales and friends in more than twenty.
- What should they teach in school, but don’t? Money management and investments and time management.
- What are you going to do when you retire? Retire?
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