Success On Your Own Terms
summary
A career story of concrete moves and outcomes: a near‑death car crash sparks a goal to work on something important, $70,000 management‑of‑technology degree buys confidence not answers, six years of consulting doubles pay but trades time for money, a five‑week demo yields two early TrackJS customers, TrackJS ships the industry‑first TrackJS telemetry timeline and becomes profitable, a later product requestmetrics fails for lack of customer conversations, and the team pivots to focus on Google‑driven web performance where customers and budgets exist.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:16Defining success
- 6:49The first lesson: You don’t have as much time as you think
- 10:41Grad school realities
- 13:31Independence as consultant
- 17:28Relationships key to success
- 21:45Control over time
- 24:38Dangers of over-engineering
- 29:20TrackJS launch
- 34:36Building a company
- 38:56Don’t do it alone
- 41:30Learning from failure
- 47:05Rebuilding with customers
- 48:08Final thoughts
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