I quit Google in 2017 to go work on something I thought would have a large positive effect on the world: https://www.jefftk.com/p/leaving-google-joining-wave ht

I quit Google in 2017 to go work on something I thought would have a large positive effect on the world: https://www.jefftk.com/p/leaving-google-joining-wave https://www.jefftk.com/p/leaving-google-joining-wave I liked the startup work similarly to my work at Google, though it was very different. I needed to be much more focused on "what's the number one thing I need to be doing for the company now" and not "how can I design and build in a way that will work for the long term". After about five months the product failed (for non-technical reasons) and I was laid off. I decided to come back to Google and start earning to give again: https://www.jefftk.com/p/rejoining-google https://www.jefftk.com/p/rejoining-google