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You Too Can Be More Mission-Driven in Your Career!
Are you feeling stuck? There’s a way out.
In December 2019, I quit my job at Pinterest.
I’d had a great run. I spent 12 years building, marketing, and selling products to help advertisers spend their money as efficiently as possible. I got my MBA while working full-time. I built a very comfortable life.
I really loved online advertising, at first. I was building the primary monetization model for the internet. And I loved the internet. I felt the internet was an incredible force for good in the world. I still think it is.
But over time, the internet just got bigger and bigger, and internet advertising grew to become the largest part of advertising. And it actually ate the internet. It became the only game in town.
I (and a lot of other people) started to see some really big downsides of unregulated, unrestrained online advertising. We were a big part of getting Donald Trump elected.
I’d had enough. I began to feel this deep sense of dread about the work I was doing.
I began to question myself more, and I started to feel like a different person. In my mind, I was a problem.