Sybill

A year ago, I was an intern at Sybill. Then a co-op. Then full-time. Now I'm a product lead at a Series A startup. Last week during our Product <> Marketing sync Collin and Sarah said some words that I'll probably re-visit everytime I'm having a bad day. Somewhere in there, Duke University also handed me my masters degree which is a thing I'm genuinely proud of. Two journeys, one year, both worth marking. 🎓 Here's what nobody tells you about joining early: ambiguity isn't a bug, it's the whole job. Most days, no one knows the right answer. There's no playbook for the product analytics stack we needed, or the growth motion we were trying to figure out, or the 5–6 features we have be shipping a month. You build hypothesis. You make the call. You watch what happens and decide if it was worth the calories. You make the next one. That's it. That's the job. The shortcut, if there is one: nail the fundamentals: your metric, your customer, your reason and then place a lot of small bets. Don't wait for the big swing. Most weeks won't have one. But a year of small bets compounds in ways that look like luck from the outside and feel like physics from the inside. Thank you Mehak and the entire Sybill team for an awesome year. Year two, here we go.

Nishit Asnani (Hiring Founding AEs) always posts about Ask Sybill prompts he’s using to get better deal visibility, spot risk, coach the team, and keep a pulse on what’s actually happening across the business. Figured I'd do the same.