5harathFounding Growth Lead, Willow Voice

Getting off the career ladder - Sarah Peck, Undefeated Underdogs #shorts

17 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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In this short dialogue, Speaker A highlights that the traditional career ladder—aiming for a CEO role—is not the only path for women with around 20 years of professional experience. She outlines a range of lateral moves that can provide both fulfillment and financial reward, including becoming an angel investor, launching a venture capital fund, serving on corporate boards (which can be paid positions), and starting side‑hustle businesses. Speaker A emphasizes that many women in this cohort are former product managers from top tech firms like Google, and that a supportive community of 100+ women sharing their own ventures can inspire others to pursue similar opportunities. Speaker B reacts with amazement, underscoring the excitement around these alternative career trajectories.

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The only real story is like the career ladder where you're trying to be a CEO. And one of the things we talk about is these lateral moves of becoming an angel investor, starting a venture fund, joining boards because you can get paid to be on board seats, starting a side hustle. Like, there's actually a tremendous number of possibilities for women who have 20 years of career experience. They're product managers. They're ex-product managers from Google. They're from— they've done all of this fantastic stuff. Mm-hmm. And so another founder is, um, it's just low-key starting a venture capital fund.
Wow.
Yeah, it's really cool. And to be in a community of 100 other women where you're like, oh, she's starting a venture fund and she's starting this and she's starting this. I'm like, oh, you know what? I, so I will, I'll do that too.