Line Switching
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Line Switching
A few thoughts on switching lines. Ambitious people often waste their lives by leaving things too early. Everyone (i mean everyone) has switched lines at the grocery store and regretted it. You're in one that isn't moving, the one next to you is, so you cross over. Then yours starts, the new one stalls. I run a company that has raised over a hundred million dollars. I switched lines to start this company. I switched lines, when we pivoted. I am not going to argue that people should never leave. But I have watched enough of these decisions by now, across many companies and domains. The…
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