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I similarly left ooyala when I felt that my own learning
rate at the company began to plateau. While I was there, I
learned about building and selling an enterprise product, the
intricacies of flash video and analytics, project estimation and
team organization, and more. I left when it became clear to
me that I could learn much more on engineering and on building
a product by joining a smaller and faster-growing team.
A contributing factor that I only discovered after working at
ooyala for a while was that I wasn't nearly as excited and motivated
to work on an enterprise product as I was to work on
a consumer product that I would actually use everyday.
Having worked at Quora for two years, I'm happy that I'm
still continuously learning new things at a good rate [5, 6],
and it certainly helps that the product itself is also so learning-focused.
When I interned at Microsoft the summer of my junior
year in college, I received a good piece of advice secondhand
from a friend's mentor: always re-examine and reflect on
where you are in your career at least every two years. even if
you're perfectly happy with your job, the exercise forces you to
check that you are actually enjoying your work and learning
on the job rather than just being comfortable.
[1] http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/21437840885/peter-thiels-cs183-startup-class-5-notes-essay
[2] http://qr.ae/1vcv2
[3] Flow: The Psychology of optimal experience, Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi, 2008.
[4] http://qr.ae/1vcnu
[5] http://qr.ae/1vctP
[6] http://qr.ae/1vct9
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