Been noodling on the concept of 10x Career Decisions. Those are the ones where you take roles in which you get to work on something that grows at least 10x (users, engagement, revenue, market cap) while you work on it.
The tech industry is rare in that there have been many many of these opportunities over the past 20 years as tech has exploded from millions of daily connected users to billions of hourly connected users.
These are the great roles as you get to so much and do so many different things to handle the explosive growth. You see much more than in any job that doesn’t grow as fast
But they take real career risk bets. Sometimes you take a risk on a company others wouldn’t take. Sometimes you take a lower role than you could get elsewhere to jump on a rocket ship and hold on for dear life. Sometimes you give up a guaranteed fat paycheck from a larger company
And I have seen a lot of people take swings for these 10x career opportunities that don’t pan out. My general advice in this case is to take a larger company role (if possible) and build meaningful impact at scale for a couple years and then swing again for the 10x+
I am curious what you think the 10x career opportunities are right now? Which factor (growth, engagement, revenue, market cap) can you join and grow 10x?
