I talk about career growth and 0-1 entrepreneurship. Founder at School16. Author at Forbes and HBR. Professor at NYU. Podcast host at The Mentors Podcast.
New York, NY
Joined July 2009
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I've interviewed over 100 entrepreneurs whose companies were valued at $1M - $1B.
It was my personal “Business School” to learn how they got from 0-1, from nothing to something valuable.
Here are the main lessons, a 🧵
All of them doubted themselves at some point or another, and sometimes on a daily basis. The difference is, they persevered beyond these doubts and focused on the work.
There’s a lot more lessons l learned through these conversations, which I’ll be sharing here. You can listen to any of the interviews here mnt.rs.
Or you can follow me to hear more lessons like this.
Tech lingo can be very confusing if you're coming from a different industry (I feel your pain my teachers, healthcare professionals, etc.). Here's an attempt to demystify it a bit, and something we'll be spending more time on teaching at School16.
12/ Start searching for roles based on the keywords you're likely to find in the description to study them, instead of trying to guess the 10 different titles that might apply to the same position.
If you want to learn more about common tech terms I've put together a free 30 minute video class about this here school16.co/free-class. Will just ask for your email to register for the class :) If this post was helpful, I hope you'll give me @vrevzin a follow!
