I get calls from good people who work in big Orthopedic companies and have decided to leave to join a startup.
It's not that easy.
You all know the frog in the frying pan story. Place a frog in a pan with water and start to heat. As the temperature rises, the frog’s system adjusts. When the water nears the boiling point the frog cannot adjust any longer, the legs don't work and he dies. Now the frog could have easily jumped out at any point, but the change was so GRADUAL that the frog did not notice.
What killed the frog?
Hint: It wasn’t the temperature. It was the frog's lack of judgement on knowing when to jump out.
Let's go back to the first day that our good person joined the big Ortho company. Life was great! The job was stable and safe and his friends knew the company by name. The big Ortho was a big place with lots of resources and great training. People were friendly. There were lots of projects, and wow, they even had matching 401k.
Now, fast forward to today. It has been a gradual process, but over the years his promotions became more spread out, his job responsibilities became narrower, and one day he woke up and realized that he was not learning anything. He wasn't gr...
