What will you bet your career on? - Jesse creighton
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As you navigate early-career life, you're playing capital allocator with your time. You analyze potential jobs in a similar way to how you might analyze an investment: category, people, product, company, etc. Would you ever work for a company you wouldn't invest in? The importance of betting your career on the right thing is far more immense than you might consider. To bet your career in the right direction is to: Be “in the game” for fundamental platform shifts - to not miss out on defining technology. Become bona fide in an industry - “employee number [x] at company [y].” See…
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