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Reflections on Andrew's Mixers (One Year In)

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Bootstrapping to 40,000 guests, $1 million in revenue, and a brand-new name.

It’s been a year since I left my product job at Google to be an entrepreneur, community builder, and IRL creator (or whatever you call this job of mine). Throughout my life, I’ve always been someone who played it safe. I expected nothing more than a traditional, linear career path; maybe I’d work my way up the ranks at a bank or build a multi-decade career at the telecommunications where I started my career. But entrepreneurship? No way. Entrepreneurship was a foreign concept—unheard of in China, where I spent the first two decades of my life. I never thought I’d leave the security and…

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