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Rocky Williform
Rocky De Aire Williform () is an American entrepreneur, inventor, software engineer, investor, and political activist. He is the founder of MixP3, the digital music streaming service, where he also serves as its CEO.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=MixP3 Inc. )〕 Before he set out to become an entrepreneur, he was a New York investment banker participating in corporate takeovers. He subsequently became a Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer with stints as a software engineer at IBM and NCD. He then co-founded U.S. beverage maker BodyBlocks Nutrition Systems and the StreetCred social network. His business interest has included investments, beverages, media, music, and software.
He has been publicly associated with former Maytag Corporation CEO Lloyd Ward, rapper, actor T.I., and five-time Olympic gold medalist, sprinter Michael Johnson. Ward was a one-time business partner and Johnson and T.I. each served as celebrity spokesman for his beverage company and social network respectively.
==Early life and education==
Williform was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas to Jesse Williform Jr. and Opal Kindall and was raised by his mother as the fifth of eight children in public housing just north of Houston, Texas. He never had a good relationship with his father. He and his brother would help to make ends meet as preteens by working odd jobs and in their teenage years spent summers working on construction sites. He at one point learned to make fiberglass speed boats. Helping to raise the family became much more of a priority over school so much so that he learned he was far behind on his studies, and as a senior he had the credits of a sophomore. So on his 18th birthday he casually walked into the counselors office and requested to withdraw from school. He tells this story during a California speech how the counselor responded sternly saying ''"you're quitting school!"'' He responded ''"I'm not quitting, I'm withdrawing and am going to college."'' The counselor responded, ''"withdrawing and quitting are the same".'' He withdrew on that day and never returns. He obtained his GED and with plans to become an attorney attended Texas Southern University, where as a member of SGA, he served as chief justice of the student court, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Company Founder & Publisher: Executive Profile )〕 He has since been listed by U.S. News & World Report as one of the university's notable alumni.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Texas Southern University )〕 He later studied at Southern Methodist University School of Engineering.
During college he had made a name for himself as a politically and socially conscious leader working as a political activist and a Texas democratic political fundraiser. He would meet a Federal Reserve Board member who would become his mentor and encourage him to get into investment banking. This encounter led him to set aside his plan to enter law school after college, relocate to New York City, and become an investment banker participating in corporate takeovers.〔
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