After two years and seven months I’m moving on. This weekend I’m unemployed. The bums lost! Friday was my last day at Socialtext and Today I started work at CombineNet. At CombineNet I’m “Lead Product Engineer, Infrastructure and Architecture.” This has me excited. Some marketing material for your pleasure:
“CombineNet’s advanced sourcing technologies leverage combinatorial optimization to save companies across the planet tens of millions of dollars.
“Fifteen of the Fortune 100 and more than 50 of the Global 1000 use CombineNet for their most advanced strategic sourcing activities, with an average return on investment of more than 45x”
I don’t want to gloss over Socialtext, though, because my time there was an incredible experience. I went to work there hoping to learn as much as I could about running venture backed startups. In my time there I had a lot of exposure to that process and I’ve learned what to do and what not to do. I’m pleased with the experiences I’ve had, the lessons I’ve learned, and the failures I’ve had.That’s right, I had my fair share of failures. Some of them were small and a couple were huge. I’m not afraid to push myself and take big risks anymore and Socialtext was a supportive environment to take those risks in. I wish I would’ve taken even more risks!
The People Matter
And now to something that really matters to me: the people. If there’s one thing that always kept me at Socialtext it’s the amazing people I’ve been able to share this part of my life with. Most of them are friends and family now. They’re a part of my life and I couldn’t just walk away. I will make trips to see these people, they’re always welcome at my house, and I expect to watch (and help if I can) them succeed in all facets of life.
I love these people. They made it great.
Congrats Casey! Well earned and well deserved.
at 9:01 pm on February 25th, 2008Congratulations. Hope you enjoyed your unemployment :o) Heading to Vegas on the 15th we are staying at the Venetian http://www.venetian.com/
at 2:54 am on February 26th, 2008Hoping to stay out of too much trouble. We were considering visiting Mary while we were in the area but she will be in PA that week. (March 15th-22nd)
Maybe you guys will get a chance to visit with her.
Honorable sentiments and validation that you’re a class act, Casey. We at Socialtext miss you and wish you all the best.
at 4:13 pm on February 26th, 2008Thanks to all of you. I appreciate such kind words and the feelings are most certainly reciprocated.
at 10:32 pm on February 26th, 2008[...] my adult life I had free time during the work day and no outstanding tasks to work out. Even when switching jobs on my own terms I never took time off to relax. So I had to make a plan. I split my plan into two basic categories, [...]
at 12:49 am on March 7th, 2009