Najaf Husain, CEO of Reston-based Cloudistics, has always been into race cars. So when he sold his last company AppAssure Software to Dell in 2012, he decided to buy one.

And so, as he built Cloudistics (founded in 2013), Husain also built up a passion as a semi-pro race car driver. The two are more similar than you’d think.

“It constantly puts you in an uncomfortable position,” Husain said, of racing. And for him that’s just like running a company — if you’re not uncomfortable you’re not growing. Husain told Technical.ly that many of the guys he races with in the IMSA Prototype Challenge series are business owners. This is at least partially because owning a race car is expensive, but it also, one imagines, has something to do with the unique thrills of both these challenges.

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