cdixon | If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough

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My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. I applied to hundreds of jobs: low-level VC roles, startups jobs, even to big tech companies. I got rejected from every single one. Big companies rejected me outright or gave me a courtesy interview before rejecting me. VCs told me they wanted someone with VC experience. Startups at the time were laying people off. The economy was bad (particularly where I was looking – consumer internet) and I had a strange resume (computer programmer, small bootstrapped startups, degree

cdixon | If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough

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