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The Secrets to Designing a Curiosity-Driven Career
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The Secrets to Designing a Curiosity-Driven Career

First Round Review
First Round Review, 2019
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Do you see your career as a painting, or a ladder? If you ask Zainab Ghadiyali, product lead at Airbnb, she’ll encourage you to pick up the paintbrush and get to work covering your canvas. Envisioning your career as a painting allows you to seek “omnidirectional growth,” ultimately providing a broader foundation for eventual vertical climbing. She also recommends letting curiosity be your guide to better – albeit less conventional – career decisions. While most interviews with Silicon Valley successes are crawling over themselves to be “inspirational,” Ghadiyali’s story and advice can actually lay claim to the title.

Take-Aways

  • When offered an unexpected but exciting career opportunity, take it, even if you have to battle imposter syndrome and own up to your limitations.
  • Taking a career risk is only the first step; more important is the hard work and dedication that makes the risk worthwhile. 
  • Don’t make career decisions based primarily on how they’ll look on your résumé. Instead, follow your curiosity. You’ll learn skills that will give you job security in an uncertain market.

About the Author

First Round Capital is a Philadelphia, PA venture capital firm that specializes in seed-stage funding for technology firms.

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