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If you aren’t getting rejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough
My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when Iwas trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. I applied tohundreds of jobs: low-level VC roles, startups jobs, even to big techcompanies. I got rejected from every single one. Big companiesrejected me outright or gave me a courtesy interview before rejectingme. VCs told me they wanted someone with VC experience. Startups at thetime were laying people off. The economy was bad (particularly where Iwas looking – consumer internet) and I had a strange resume (computerprogrammer, small bootstrapped startups, undergrad and masters studyingPhilosophy/mathematical logic).
The reason this period was so useful was that it helped me develop areally thick skin. I came to realize that employers weren’t reallyrejecting me as a person or on my potential – they were rejecting aresume. As it became depersonalized, I became bolder in my tactics. Ieventually landed a job at Bessemer(thanks to their willingness to take chances and look beyond resumes),which led to getting my first VC-backed startup funded, and things gotbetter from there.
One of the great things about looking for a job is that your “payoff”is almost always a max function (the best of all attempts), not anaverage. This is also generally true for raising VC financing, doingbizdev partnerships, hiring programmers, finding good advisors/mentors,even blogging and marketing. I probably got rejected by someone once aday last week alone. In one case a friend who tried to help called me toconsole me. He seemed surprised when I told him: “no worries – this is adaily occurrence – we’ll just keep trying.” If you aren’t gettingrejected on a daily basis, your goals aren’t ambitious enough.