my career path (quote cast with yours!):

1) investment banking (fintech)
2) structured finance (cmbs: commercial mortgage-backed securities)
3) online advertising, startups (search + display operations & optimization)
4) online advertising, public company (display media sales)
5) growth marketing consultant, startups
6) live mobile streaming influencer/content creation
7) founder (elementus, social forensics)

my career path:

1) dishwasher
2) graveyard FedEx package handler, then QA
3) restaurant shift work, then GM
4) contractor & home builder
5) innkeeper & wedding planner
6) church planter & pastor
7) web developer
8) director of engineering
9) VP of engineering, then all product dev
10) CTO, then CEO
11) founder

leader • reader • taco eater • fly eagles fly • /whiskey • /nativefun • previously addepar, linkedin • https://nf.td/derek

Quite a nice mix… curious what made you enter or exit church work?

Growing veggies for the fine folks of Southeastern Massachusetts, w/ a focus on nutrient quality. Always interested in the evolution of digital payments.  🎩 

Frankly to take care of my fast growing family.

We had just had twins, living in a singlewide in rural America, and working three jobs.

It was a church plant (basically a startup church) and it was “acquired” by a larger church in the area before I had to move to CA for work reasons.