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

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exploring new frontiers in tech, ai, crypto, farcaster DAU since 2023, product background

Well technically like 9 months but then moved to cook/chef at the same place. Worked at that place for 2 years.

blockspace babe. cultural attaché from ‘06 twitter. adjacent possible fanatic 🌐 UTC–4

Innkeeping not gatekeeping 😉

I lived in basically a closet in a bed and breakfast and took care of guests at all hours. 

Whatever they needed. 

Planned a few weddings. Gave campus tours. Baked cookies. Middle of the night worries. Travel plans. Etc.

say more about innkeeping darling. something we see on our roadmap

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.

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

Tinkering on Farcaster and writing about it. Built /ambassadors (hiatus) https://kylepatrick.xyz

That was the last one I’d expect since its a graveyard shift!

thats a lot of quests! 

other than what youre doing right now, what was your favorite job?

First normal person that wasn't raised from birth to get into IB/FANG/MC

hell of a trip it sounds like
i was a dishwasher too, under juanelo, best in the show
i can name 5 great work ethic having (and somewhat successful to varying degrees) people, all washed dishes at some point in their careers.

Wonderful to see all the DOTs that led you to what you're building now. I can see all that influence around meaningful valued connections  being crafted for $NATIVE

Thoughtful system design embeds the positive lessons we desire to teach to users 🥰