Why Elena quit her senior VP job to work for herself

When it was time for me to leave. And there was a lot of events happening in SurveyMonkey that really told me that I had to go. One of the biggest one is that our CEO passed away. Then I jumped into another company so quickly, just because I got married to a concept, and I thought that all of the problems that the company had is what I could solve. And then I realized that it wasn't a good match. And everybody in the recruiting market tells you the story of rainbows and unicorns and butterflies, of how everything is incredible because they just want you to sign on the dotted line, and then your retention suffers because nobody actually speaks the hard truths about the company and the problems that they're facing. So a bad hire, and there's so many bad leadership hires that are happening, that are leaving a year, two years after being on the job. It's just it sets everybody back.