30 Years in Business w/ Richard Aulenbach (RPA Engineering)

Richard Aulenbach founded RPA Engineering in 1989. He has run the firm for over 30 years and expanded to a team of over 70 people.

RPA Engineering serves a wide variety of markets including pharmaceuticals, power, and government.

Richard has had extensive experience in landing large deals, recruiting technical talent, and surviving bad business partners.

In this interview, Richard and Aaron discuss lessons from 30 years in business, how to win bigger deals, and the challenges that come from growing team size.

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0:00 Introduction
4:15 History
10:22 Structure of 80 Engineers Team
14:21 The Expansion
19:26 Markets and Services
22:55 The differentiation as a service provider
26:31 Running from something or running towards something?
32:31 Company's Challenges and Vision
39:20 Personal Challenge