Landon Cope Interview (#2)

I met Landon through one of my classmates in the BYU BUS M490R class the first week of school. My classmate told me that one of his brothers had a friend, Landon Cope, who had just received his masters from BYU and was starting his own small companies. I was interested in meeting him because I liked that he was so fresh out of school, and could help me realize where I need to be right now as a sophomore.

Landon Cope went to Brigham Young University and got his degree in Information Systems. He graduated, started working for four years, and decided he wanted to go back to BYU and get his masters in Business Administration. After he received his masters, he decided he wanted to being starting his own small companies.

Landon first started with a company he called Remotenerd.com. This company had the ability to virtually take over other computers to help fix the computer problems. He said he feels this company could have taken off and gone somewhere exciting, but that he got bored with it too quick and put it to rest. That’s when he decided that he wanted to start working with mobile software and creating cell phone apps. Right now he is working on two apps that are learning applications that focus on learning for children. 

Landon told me that if he could go back and start college all over again, he would not get his degree in Information Systems. He said that this was too easy, and doesn’t feel that it is a super practical degree for him to have. He didn’t realize until after undergraduate school that he wanted to be an entrepreneur, so had he known this he probably would have got his degree in accounting or technical engineering. He said that he decided he wanted to be an entrepreneur after he quit working for Adobe because he realized he doesn’t do well under authority. He said if he had any advice it would be to figure out exactly what you want to do before you get through college. You can’t graduate and realize that that isn’t what you want to do, or that you degree isn’t going to get you anywhere. I completely agree with him and hope that by the end of the year I will know exactly the direction I want my schooling to take me in.