Saif Ali Shaik

September 29, 2024

The Only Bet I Always Wanted to Take: I'm Joining Scalekit

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I am joining the Scalekit team.  

Being User Zero in the room, allowing marketers, engineers, architects, product managers, and designers to bounce their thoughts off each other, is a luxury.

Being able to share the risk of missing out on an opportunity or falling behind the competition is a luxury.

Feeling unresolved after an unproductive day, especially after spending 30 kilometers driving, is a luxury.

Sharing time with founders—joining customer calls, winning the first customer, and learning how entrepreneurs see the world—is a luxury.

Being able to combine work, transparency, and fun in the same sentence when describing a culture is a luxury.

Feeling supported as I shift my mindset and work style from a 5,000-employee company to a company with fewer than 50 employees is a luxury.

Having the chance to start from scratch without having to follow a textbook approach to serve developers is a luxury.

It's a perk to love your laptop or monitor without a bunch of identifiers assigned or bloatware installed.

I stopped worrying about how it would all turn out. I just see a journey I won't regret traveling. After all the companies I interviewed with, the options I explored, the noise I heard, and the blurred cultures I had to see; it's that luxuries truly matter today, in my stage of career. I don't know if I took the blue pill or the red pill. I took one. Now it's my goddamn business to ensure it's the blue outcome.

About Saif Ali Shaik

Hey, I'm Saif. Writing is one of my favorite habits. I journal about my learnings for the world to read. Some appreciate it if that adds value. This page you are seeing is my only social media. Welcome to my World of shower thoughts!