I cofounded a billion-dollar company and left it behind to teach high school. Teaching was way harder but more rewarding than working in tech.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Agris Tamanis, the 53-year-old cofounder of the Latvian unicorn companyIn 2020, a year before the company I cofounded would be valued at $1 billion, I returned home to Cesis in Latvia to start my new job as a programming teacher at the local school.
There were plenty of skeptics who thought we just printed T-shirts, but we saw the potential. We'd developed a unique, scalable technology, and there was growing global demand in the nascent e-commerce industry.— a startup valued at $1 billion — eight years later, in May 2021. Hiring was always a major struggle. There was a catastrophic shortage of programmers, and it wasn't just Printful's problem. The whole IT industry, in Latvia and beyond, was suffering from a tech talent shortage.
A friend suggested I fill the position. I'd already returned to my hometown, so I agreed spontaneously.I decided to temporarily step back from Printful to become a full-time teacher until the school found someone else. I worked as a full-time teacher for five semesters, from September 2020 until this January.With every new class I had to gain the teenagers' respect and cooperation. Then we'd become a team learning things together.
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