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Michael Gray
President, Founder
Started at Socratic in 1993
What is the best advice you've been given?
Fate hates a chicken.
What is the most important thing you learned before high school?
How to work hard and smart as a 13 year old working in my father's construction company.
What song or artist have you most recently listen to?
Munich by the Editors
When working with clients, what is something that seems to surprise them when conducting research?
How easy we are to work with even on the most difficult studies. It is probably the one most consistent piece of feedback we get.
If you had a personal motto, what would it be?
Seek truth, drive change.
What is something you want to fix that people in market research deal with?
Sample Quality.
What is the most inspiring part of you job?
For the past 27 years I have worked with the most amazing people. They never cease to innovate and creatively solve problems for our clients.
What is a pet peeve you have?
Meetings without an agenda.
If you were a superhero, what would you
What it is? Perseverance.
What I would want it to be? The ability to replicate myself to be in two places at once.
How would you end the sentence, "On Sunday mornings, you can usually find me..." ?
On a run, or a ride.
Within the next year, what is a goal for yourself that you want to accomplish?
Improve my FTP to 300 and progress toward running a marathon in under 3 hours before I am 60.
