Taking a step back financially to take a step forward in your career

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Frontera

Experience: Frontera · Location: Denver · 500+ connections on LinkedIn. View Amol Deshpande’s profile on LinkedIn, a professional community of 1 billion members.

Why it worked

The video uses a personal anecdote and relatable career advice to connect with the audience. By highlighting successful individuals and the long-term benefits of strategic networking, it subtly promotes the value of the environment and potentially the speaker's own venture, Frontera.

Summary

The speaker discusses the importance of making strategic career moves, even if they involve a short-term financial sacrifice. They share a personal anecdote about taking a pay cut to join Kleiner Perkins, highlighting how the environment and network led to long-term success and inspired others to start their own ventures.

Structure

1Introduction to career strategy
2Personal anecdote about joining Kleiner Perkins
3Highlighting successful individuals from the company
4

Original caption

People who are too short-term minded just look at dollars and cents in the moment. They don’t understand the intangible value of networks relationship, relationships, etc.. Your career is decades long if you make a short term decision, it will hurt you down the road. Conversely, strategic long term decisions will benefit you. ##entrepreneur##venturecapital

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Product placement

The speaker mentions their past role at Kleiner Perkins and references Matt Murphy from Menlo Ventures, implying these are examples of successful ventures that originated from or were influenced by such environments. The speaker's LinkedIn profile, which is the bio link, is for "Amol Deshpande - Frontera", suggesting Frontera is the product being promoted.

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Get in the right environments, around the right people.

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Taking a step back financially to take a step forward in your career ##entrepreneur##venturecapital

Transcript

Taking a step back financially to take a step forward in your career. You don't always take a discount to be in the right environment. When I got my job offer at Kleiner Perkins, 17, 19 years ago, it was actually a pay cut. I was moving from Minneapolis to... I was actually doing fairly well there, and it was an area of expertise. But this was my shot at the big time. And when I joined Kleiner, I mean, you wouldn't believe the people that were there. They've all gone off and started their own funds. Good example, today I just saw Matt Murphy from Menlo Ventures on, uh, Harry Stebbings' podcast. I mean, Matt wrote the biggest check in D.A.N.C.E. He's always been a spectacular investor, one of my favorite guys from Kleiner Perkins, one of the most underrated runs in Menlo Ventures now, who's become a top five firm. I can give you so many examples from people who I work with there. But I did take a pay cut when I was young. I had to move my career off trajectory, I had to move locations in order for that to happen. You guys got to think about that stuff as you're building your careers wherever you are, entrepreneur or otherwise. Get in the right environments, around the right people. It pays benefits for decades.