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Michigan Will Always Be Home feat. Michael St. Germain ‘10
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Michael St. Germain (‘10) has been both in the Army Reserve as an army aviator for 860 Blackhawks and C-2 Hurons, as well as working for Google ever since graduating college.
He is currently a product business development manager focused on Android automotive navigation and maps. Growing up outside of Detroit, he says the car industry is just in his blood.
Michael sits down with Robert to talk about his time in the Army Reserves and how it made him more grateful for time spent at home, the crutch of being too comfortable, boarding for 4 full years and how Cranbrook prepped him for life & crisis.
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Michael St. Germain has been both in the Army Reserve as an army aviator for 860 Blackhawks and C-2 Hurons, as well as working for Google ever since graduating college. He is currently a product business development manager at Google focused on Android automotive navigation and maps.
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Biggest takeaway from boarding at Cranbrook
14:01 - You naturally begin to make friends with each other. Cause you're all kind of moored on an island that's foreign to almost everyone. And so it's a big bonding experience for a lot of people. And I think I learned a lot about friendship and the importance of friendship through relying on each other when you guys, when you had no one else to rely on except your friends.
What excites you about your work at Google
01:21 - I think just building partnerships between leading edge technology companies like Google and what I might call legacy industries or older industries, where there's a lot of opportunity to use technology that's being developed in Silicon valley and bringing it to other parts of the economy is really exciting.
Do you fear failure?
24:51 - I think anyone who says that they don't fear failure is probably lying to themselves. I think the key though is that reminding yourself that if and when you fail, which everyone will. You have a track record of overcoming it. So in some ways failing more times makes you more confident about going through failure.