I want to share this for anyone else that needs to hear it. Embrace the challenges, the hard times, and the bad people in your career. Everything will make you stronger.
I once poured 4 years of my life into someone else startup, happily at the time. I designed, I brainstormed, I gave it everything and more.
One day, they told me they run out of money and let me go. That's fair and it happens. I was ready for it.
What I was not ready for, was being ghosted. No goodbye, no thank you. Just silence from then on.
That hurt me more than losing the job.
But it thought me 2 things:
- Some founders don't know how to treat people.
- And maybe my place wasn't in someone else's startup after all.
I didn't know it then, but that moment planted the seed for what I'm building today!