Daniel Crespo –

A Physicist And Entrepreneur

The president of IOT is a physicist by training. He founded IOT with two of his professors from university in 2005 and says it has been fun ever since. The 49-year-old lives in California and Spain. In his free time, he takes every opportunity to pursue his favorite sports: hiking, skiing and tennis.

Which profession did your parents have in mind for you? They probably thought I was going to be a scientist.

If you didn´t do your current job, what else would you do? Any type of R&D job that involved optics, complex algorithms, or simulations.

What is the best thing about your job? My team.

When was the last time you were fed up with your job? When I see customers that don’t care about the quality of their lenses.

What does a new customer mean to you?

A great happiness, and a chance at a long-term relationship full of exciting projects together.

What has annoyed you today? Nothing so far, but it is still early …

In your opinion: which thing is completely overrated? Expensive clothes, but I seem to be the only one in my family with that opinion.

What was the most significant innovation of the last fifty years? The internet, followed very closely by our lenses.

What would you do differently in your next life? I would be braver, trust my instincts and believe more in my chances.