Chloe Shih

Like this is a product manager I can trust who has our back so I can build in peace with support.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That was like fascinating.

A lot of growth.

I enjoyed it.

I think the topic of when you...

I think I get a lot of, Hey, Chloe, I got laid off too.

And I don't know what to do.

And it's the darkest time of my life.

I think that's like, but I feel like it's a big topic.

So I don't know if we can like really talk.

I, I feel my experience has been so different from everyone else's because I did have this content option.

And I think the, the critics, I guess like the feedback I've gotten was like, you're lucky you even had a fallback option, which is okay.

Fair point.

But a lot of people don't.

A lot of people, their entire family depended on the salary, and then they lose that.

So for me, I was so incredibly lucky to have an option and to bow out.

But that also came with working in tech for almost a decade and knowing that I've lost my identity time and time again, and then knowing that I had to build this backup plan just in case it happened again, which it did.

But also I felt a lot of shame at the beginning.