A speaker shares their unexpected path working at Microsoft, Facebook, and Google, meeting executives like Steve Ballmer, Larry Page, and Mark Zuckerberg. The core lesson: these influential figures are driven and normal, not superhuman. Their success is achievable for anyone willing to pursue it.
During my summers, I knew I wanted to go work at startups. Never thought I would work at big companies ever, but ended up doing product management on Microsoft, Facebook, Google. And it was really funny stories how I ended up there. Literally didn't want to go there. One of them was, I was going to play Ultimate Frisbee at the Oval and I went to Ike's to get a sandwich, but then they was closed and they had a career fair. And I went to Facebook to grab the protein bar, but I felt bad. So they're like, do you have a resume? I was like, no, I'm in tank top in cleats, like, I don't have a resume. And then they emailed me afterwards and I was like, all right, fine. So the really interesting thing here was I said, you know, one day I'm going to have a company like this, so maybe I'll go and try to see how it's run. And actually the thing I took away was really the people. It was just like really weird thing where somehow in all the companies, I ended up hanging out with the execs. At Microsoft, there's 100 buildings, it's massive. It's like a whole campus, right? But there are. All the executives are in building 42 on the fourth floor. I'm this random intern. I happen to be on Building 42 on the third floor, right? And ended up hanging out with Steve Ballmer, who was CEO at the time and spent time with him at Google, there was. Had meetings with Larry and would hang out with Sergey. And at Facebook, there was one desk next to Mark Zuckerberg, and that was my desk, right? And it was just like, so random. And again, I don't say this to try to impress you, but to impress upon you I had this really powerful lesson. And that lesson was that these people are so driven and work super hard. Still, flashbacks to when I was bringing my girlfriend at the time on Sunday to visit the office and Mark was walking in to do work, and I'm just screwing around. And I was like, oh, hi, how's it going? But basically the big takeaway here was they're incredible people, but they're just normal humans, right? And I really kind of reinforce this belief that if they can do it, like, I can do it too.
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