Here’s an appropriate link for this weekend and for this blog:
Declaration of Independence: 8 Entrepreneurs Who Left Big Corporate Jobs for Startups
A few quotes that resonated with me:
“Don’t just base the decision on financial [impact]. As I have discovered, the flexibility, learning opportunities, and value of building your own [business] can have a far bigger impact on your life.”
— Jasper Vallance (ex-Google)
“The hard-earned comforts of a good job can taste like sweet fruit found at the summit of a long career climb. Then one day you look around and realize you’ve grown fat and you’re stuck on a plateau, not a peak. You miss feeling hungry.”
— Dan Yoo (ex-LinkedIn)“And now I feel like you’re on your own in this big, bad world and you have a lot less appeal because [you] don’t have the power of Google. And yet, I’ve never felt more accomplished because the mistakes you make are yours and the victories you have are yours, too.”
— Anastasia Leng (ex-Google)
Happy Independence Day!
Ronn