Lenny DistilledCraft → Career Growth
Naomi is reflecting on her decision to join Facebook as employee #29 in 2005, where "that" refers to accepting any available role at the promising startup.
When you are on getting a rocket ship, don't ask what seat. That was my foot in the door and here we are 19 years later.
Your career and your ability to transcend, which is really moving faster than other people to get bigger jobs, is fairly dependent on the momentum of your company.
The best thing you can do is find companies that are growing fast because it compounds your learning at a much faster interval.
I would much rather be the number two or number three person at the leader in a space, than the top person at a tier two company.
Every single career decisions I ever made, including my first one out of college, was just figuring out who are the smartest people I know that I want to hang out with and learn from, and can I work with them?
I was a leader at Oracle for five years, and my team grew from five to seven over five years. And I was a leader at Atlassian for four years, and my team grew from 15 to 100.
There's these large number of growth companies who have raised substantive dollars. So they're not going to run out of capital in 2022 or 2023... My fear is, from a career point of view, so many tech professionals are in these organizations or joining these organizations with the expectation that they'll make money on their equity.