How Square Cofounder Jim McKelvey Stopped Viewing His Career As A ‘Dumpster Fire’ And Embraced Entrepreneurship

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How Square Cofounder Jim McKelvey Stopped Viewing His Career As A ‘Dumpster Fire’ And Embraced Entrepreneurship
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Jim McKelvey spent a lot of time seeing his career as a “dumpster fire” because it was non-linear, unlike those of many people he knew. Read some of the takeaways from his book:

Let go of the idea of a linear career path.

McKelvey spent a lot of time seeing his career as a “dumpster fire” because it was non-linear, unlike those of many people he knew. "It took me a long time to realize I was different," he said. “It’s the term ‘career,’ I couldn’t handle…Almost implied with the word career is ‘path…’ I didn’t have a career path.”

He came to realize that “the things I was good at were not valued over a long period of time”—but that didn't mean they weren't valuable. “Most of the things you do in entrepreneurship haven’t been done before,” he said. “Past that, you haven’t figured it out. Existing language can hold you back when you’re inventing something new. “We don’t even have a word in the English language for something that doesn’t exist,” noted McKelvey. That doesn’t mean you can’t make it up.

Users of Invisbly will be asked to pay more for the content they like."If it's free, you have no control," he said. “It’s not really free if you are selling your attention to someone else who is making it

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