Imagine that you were lucky enough to find a job at a large, powerful organization that:
- Has great pay and benefits
- Has a great boss who actively helps you get better and wants you to succeed
- Is extremely stable
- Is challenging and rewarding
- Would allow you to do many of the things you love to do including building and leading an awesome team of smart developers
Now imagine that you decided to leave that job after investing 6 years of hard work even though the greatest opportunities for success were yet to come. And, the reason why you are leaving this high-profile job at a big organization is to work at a 3-person, 2-year-old startup that is still working toward profitability. Why in the world would anyone in the right mind do that? It’s sort of like if Gene Hackman’s character in Hoosiers decided to quit the team right before the state championship so that he could coach a local middle school. How does that make any sense?
Well, it turns out quite a bit. Let me explain.
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