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Career Decisions - Elad Gil

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Whenever you make a decision on what step to take next in your career[1], I think it is worth considering the following factors.  Depending on your stage of life or career, different factors become more or less important[2]. FACTORS TO OVERWEIGHT 1. Network. I view this as the most important thing to optimize for in a job.  Network includes both who you work with, and for, day to day.  But equally important, who are the network of people at and around the company (founders, employees, investors, advisors, etc.)? In Silicon Valley networks of people work together repeatedly.  If you fall in with the right crowd, you will have outsized opportunities over time.  Being part of the original PayPal network exposed you to companies like LinkedIn, Yelp, Tesla, SpaceX, and Facebook.  Similarly, ex-Googlers are now senior executives or VCs involved with the top companies in Silicon Valley (Facebook, Sequoia, Dropbox, Pinterest, etc.).  People who were early at Google now know people at every

Whenever you make a decision on what step to take next in your career[1], I think it is worth considering the following factors. Depending on your stage of life or career, different factors become more or less important[2]. FACTORS TO OVERWEIGHT 1. Network. I view this as the most important thing to optimize for in a job. Network includes both who you work with, and for, day to day. But equally important, who are the network of people at and around the company (founders, employees, investors, advisors, etc.)? In Silicon Valley networks of people work together repeatedly. If you fall in…

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