Assaf Resnick

Oh, that's a good question.

Sometimes I still ask myself that.

And the hardest day is I ask myself, why did I leave this golden cage?

You know, I spent six years at Sequoia, and it was an opportunity of a lifetime.

I had the privilege to work with some incredibly talented entrepreneurs and incredibly talented people.

partners, but I was young.

And I felt at the time, boy, I started there at age 29.

And I learned a ton.

It was one of those pivotal moments in my career that a fork in the road, and you look back, and this was definitely one of those forks in the road.

But after a few years, A, I got the entrepreneur bug.

And I'd been around a lot of entrepreneurs and seen them through the good times and the bad times.

And I wanted to get a sense for that myself.

And I also had a sense that

Having not started a company before, I was kind of telling people how to drive a car, but I'd never driven a car myself.

And so I really wanted to kind of eat my own dog food.

And that was a lot of the impetus to leave.

I wasn't a partner.

I was kind of a principal there, so helping a lot of deals at the time.

So I personally didn't have a lot of that.

And Sequoia is a tough place to turn down.