I’ll also note that both startups generally and marketplaces specifically benefit enormously by giving amateurs the opportunity to go professional if that is interesting to them, and by accelerating that transition.
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(In most relevant respects I was an amateur when I started working on my businesses in 2006. For better or worse, nobody ever comes to you, puts a diploma in your hand, and says “Congratulations! Now you know what you’re doing. Go forth and perform the duties of our profession.”)
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“What is your profession?” Tough to describe. I’m an engineer who barely codes, an entrepreneur presently employed, in the Marketing department but neither 100% engaged in traditional marketing activities but also the resident Xer for some marketing Xes, etc.
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I am insufficiently up on my emoji to decode that but if you can express it in the form of a Tiktok meme one of my colleagues may be able to translate for me.
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Now I’m curious; what would have been your top guesses?
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Is your career profile such that you get offered "please become the CEO of these 2000 people whose current CEO's head is on the block"? Do you expect it to soon?
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I was once asked to interview for CTO of a global bank’s Tokyo operations. When I asked the recruiter what suggested to them that I had appropriate leadership experience for the position, they mentioned “CEO of a multinational software company.” Chief Technically True Officer.
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