“I’m impressed with how much energy there is in the room!”
— Bob Moul, CEO of Artisan

“I’ve been drawn into Philly over and over again. It interesting, I feel like I’m supposed to be in Philadelphia. And at this point, after 20-some years of traveling all over the world, Im done. Philly is home. Im all-in on Philly.”
— Bob Moul, CEO of Artisan

“I worked with the city on a really cool project. I worked with the Mayor and his team to put together Startup PHL. It’s a 6 million dollar seed fund that we now have in Philadelphia. Also we have a 500 hundred thousand dollar idea fund.”
— Bob Moul, CEO of Artisan

“In order to have a strong region, you have to have a strong city. I felt like the best use of my personal time was to get plugged into the city, try to really bolster the startup scene and I thought the region would grow as a result.”
— Bob Moul, CEO of Artisan

“I didn’t go to college. I never applied to college. I never took the SAT or pSAT. I never had any interest in going. I just knew that I wanted to go work for EDS.”
— Bob Moul, CEO of Artisan

“I started in the mail room. And over the course of 19 years, worked my way up from the mailroom to one of the top executives in the company.”
— Bob Moul, CEO of Artisan

“When I grew up, ‘Entrepreneur’ wasn’t even in the dictionary. It was not in the lexicon. It was never in any discussions about future job paths.”
— Bob Moul, CEO of Artisan

“The more you tell me something can’t be done, the more I want to do it!”
— Bob Moul, CEO of Artisan