Dharmesh Shah shaped his HubSpot role to include only what he wanted: creative work. He deliberately excluded managing people, one-on-ones, and expense reports. He built the job he actually wanted instead of taking what the company offered.
I spend most of my life trying to configure the universe to my liking, and all entrepreneurs really do this, right? That's one of the reasons that they kind of go into startup land is the freedom and the control to do the things you want to do. And so I've kind of crafted a role for myself within HubSpot that allows me to do exactly the things that I want to do and not do any of the things I don't want to do, which is one-on-one meetings. I don't have to manage people. I have no direct reports. I've never filled out an expense sheet. I do none of that.
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