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I've experienced working at a large traditional company, early stage startup, founding a fund, and founding a startup. Some random thoughts - AIG: work hard and learn a lot but difficult to have autonomy with layers of management, most there to collect paycheck, how you stand out depends on manager - Coinbase (30-150 employees): work hard but first time work didn't feel like work since cared deeply, tons of autonomy, first time working with many mission driven colleagues, can stand out taking initiative, did not have a sense of how hard being a founder was for Brian + Fred - Scalar (founded fund): work harder (no days off in week), decisions fall on founders so huge sense of ownership, lows are really low, first sense of how hard things can really get - Bountycaster (founded company): work harder than founding fund (default is work and then carve out personal time), cycles of highs and lows much more rapid than fund, feel most fulfilled due to ownership, mission, and connecting with users
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Super impressive LInda. Had no idea, but also not too surprised based on the way you've been able to drive the agenda of your current 2 person start up, while also working on side projects. Cheers to you and all of your future successes. πŸ’›
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That the startup makes you feel most fulfilled is telling. It's been the same for me, though the startup tradeoff is much harder now that I have a son. Personal time used to be an optional, so I could always work more and not sweat it too much. Now it's a must that strikes a clear tension with work time. And yet, I want to be able to demonstrate to my son through my own life that you can achieve your dreams if you work hard, and that you can do so without sacrificing character. So it's always a tough one knowing where to work and when to family. And then when to take care of yourself...
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My first job out of school was with Lockheed Martin. The team was 400 people and we got every other Friday off, all year around. I got a lot of $20 skiing in and tons of time for leisure. Been founding companies for the past 10 years and default was always work. Wouldn’t ever go back though.
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Thanks a lot for sharing with us πŸ™ I believe Bouticaster stands out among all your experiences. But I also believe that without those steps, you would not have become who you are today πŸ’œ The key takeaway is to enjoy every single step and stage of this incredible journey πŸš€
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"feel most fulfilled due to ownership, mission, and connecting with users" - we haven't launched yet but i already feel the same building on farcaster, ppl here are curious by nature - otherwise they wouldn't be early adopters of an onchain social network lol your point about coinbase is good to hear specifically the autonomy and mission driven colleagues - seems based on jesse's commentary they've carried this on and personally makes me incredibly optimistic about the future of them leading in a lot of areas onchain
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I would love to hear you write more about going from fund to founding a co and what pushed you in that direction. Am in a similar spot - was a PM at startups and big cos, done VC for several funds and now thinking about my next thing (I miss being connected to building)
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If you had to summarize the most useful skills you took from each place, what would they be? It seems like a very diverse list so I’m curious if the path kind of snowballed into where you are today?
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Great journey πŸ™ thanks for sharing … next company it will be more highs than lows 😊
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An experience at a place filled with lots of locals is something too Say, barkeepπŸ€”, manager of an hotel Now, that deals with large scale, but i get it's slightly different from the normale list of things you put down
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200 $DEGEN
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inspired af
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As much as I wanted to ask which one's best for you, I can feel how each was a huge step on what's happening right now. Daaaang all those experiences in such a young age. I better push myself moooore.
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That is awesome Linda
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do you look at it as an evolution or do you sometimes feel like you want to go back to a traditional corporate job?
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@dix0x1.eth
Different experiences shape you, fam
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@rafaello12
Thanks for sharing You’ve had quite the journey Which one did you prefer the most?
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Such an incredible experience. And thank you so much for sharing your thoughts πŸ™‡πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ
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Highs and lows are usually frequent,what matters is always surviving the storm.
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Sometimes working with large enterprises takes time to help you understand all the work of the company.While working at a startup ,it's easier to understand the business process.
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