Bryan Power

I don't want a job where I'm thinking by myself.

I don't want a job where I'm thinking by myself.

I was lucky enough to join Google. I joined Square One as a startup. Both of those opportunities, I just felt like it was more than I was going to be able to do. I get an extra push from needing to figure things out. But I think everyone wants the success, but you have to go through the level of challenge you haven't dealt with before to really feel that come through.

I was lucky enough to join Google. I joined Square One as a startup. Both of those opportunities, I just felt like it was more than I was going to be able to do. I get an extra push from needing to figure things out. But I think everyone wants the success, but you have to go through the level of challenge you haven't dealt with before to really feel that come through.

When I'm looking for leaders, I really try to just pay attention to

When I'm looking for leaders, I really try to just pay attention to

I think people underestimate.

I think people underestimate.

I think if you go all the way back, I was also a dot-commer. I came to the Bay Area in 1999, and that was a really inspiring time in tech and in Silicon Valley. And I think I learned at an early age to try to chase down and lean into really challenging opportunities, probably a little more than I thought I was capable of.

I think if you go all the way back, I was also a dot-commer. I came to the Bay Area in 1999, and that was a really inspiring time in tech and in Silicon Valley. And I think I learned at an early age to try to chase down and lean into really challenging opportunities, probably a little more than I thought I was capable of.

I was really young. I was 23 or 24. And so I was grateful for to be exposed to like the super high bubble of the dot com where you kind of look back on it now and see that change was going to take longer than people thought it did at the time. But this period of massive change was clearly in the air, particularly in San Francisco in 1999.

I was really young. I was 23 or 24. And so I was grateful for to be exposed to like the super high bubble of the dot com where you kind of look back on it now and see that change was going to take longer than people thought it did at the time. But this period of massive change was clearly in the air, particularly in San Francisco in 1999.

It kind of reminds me similar of the feeling around AI today where people are not totally sure what exactly it's going to look like, but clearly something massive has really shifted.

It kind of reminds me similar of the feeling around AI today where people are not totally sure what exactly it's going to look like, but clearly something massive has really shifted.

It looks better looking backwards than it does in the moment. I was lucky enough to join Google. They had just gone public. This is now almost 20 years ago in 2005. And it was certainly a darling of Silicon Valley, but it wasn't like the mega corporation that it is today. And I just didn't anticipate the... journey that I went on there and everyone who's worked there has went on.

It looks better looking backwards than it does in the moment. I was lucky enough to join Google. They had just gone public. This is now almost 20 years ago in 2005. And it was certainly a darling of Silicon Valley, but it wasn't like the mega corporation that it is today. And I just didn't anticipate the... journey that I went on there and everyone who's worked there has went on.

And even Square, you know, I joined Square One as a startup and I can't say we all thought it would play out the way that it was. We were certainly optimistic, but it just succeeded more than even we anticipated it was working there. Both of those opportunities, and this has been consistent really with all of the

And even Square, you know, I joined Square One as a startup and I can't say we all thought it would play out the way that it was. We were certainly optimistic, but it just succeeded more than even we anticipated it was working there. Both of those opportunities, and this has been consistent really with all of the

the jobs I look at or teams I seek to join, I just felt like it was more than I was gonna be able to do. That choice that you're scared or stressed that you're gonna be able to achieve something, I've found for me personally is a better choice than taking something where you know you can do it.

the jobs I look at or teams I seek to join, I just felt like it was more than I was gonna be able to do. That choice that you're scared or stressed that you're gonna be able to achieve something, I've found for me personally is a better choice than taking something where you know you can do it.