Looking at the Canvas One Step Back
When I was in San Francisco, I met people who lived their dreams. People who took the risk of turning what they loved doing into their profession. Most probably regarded these people as quixotic… silly, delirious, as they made their climb to success. I met Toni Schneider, who described living off a few thousand dollars a year eating cups of ramen, who now sits as the creator of Wordpress and Partner at True Ventures. Prior to meeting Toni, I met Andrew Kortina, founder of Venmo, back at Penn who described going around in Philadelphia after graduating, knocking on houses, asking if they needed a website built for their personal bio or business.
Then I came back to Penn. As a third year, I started to see my peers dressed in suits, blindly hustling to On Campus Recruiting info sessions every other day. “You just gotta play the game,” one of my friends told me. I went to an info session. I...