Leaving Current and joining Outright
Sunday, October 18, 2009 at 1:00 PM Well well... it was a very busy summer afterall.
In late August I got a call from a Ed Zschau, a recruiter friend with who'd I'd first talked to back about 2 years ago when I was looking to leave eBay. He'd had some interesting leads but I ended up finding the Current gig through my friend Danny. This time he said he had something that might be a good fit and wondered if I was looking for something new. I had been on a few exploratory rounds with different places but nothing serious. So I had a call with Ed and ran through the high level details. Next up had a call with Kevin, the CEO, and then went in for a meeting with the Outright team. After a couple more meetings in a 2 week span of time they made me an offer and I gave my notice at Current. All very quick but it had all the right characteristics of a place I'd love.
On the Current side leaving was an interesting experience. I had really enjoyed my time there and felt like I was just scratching the surface of what we could accomplish but the call of an 8 person startup where I could play a bigger role was just too good to pass up. Suffice it to say that the Current folks were awesome to me, the going away week of festivities was awesome, and thanks to all the social networking tools I'm able to stay in touch. And btw- the way I measure success is by how many things dropped when I left and so far that count is at one (Sorry Melody for not getting that update done!).
Now I've been at Outright.com for 5 weeks (tomorrow starts week #6) and it is turning out to be exactly what I was looking for. Here's a super short list of the perks as I'm trying to keep this good for public consumption:
- 8 awesome people and a cool, early stage product
- added exposure to inner workings of the management team
- around the corner from eBay and my whole social circle there
- 5.5 miles from home (no $200+ monthly train ticket and I'm actually riding my bike to work... sometimes)