Career Crossroads

​You’ve built rockets, cars, boats. You know how to engineer complex systems, now it’s time to engineer your career.

​The Rules of the Game

​There is no "right" way to entrepreneurship. We’ve invited three "contestants" who took three wildly different routes, talk about their journeys.

​The Contenders

• ​The Pure-Play Founder (Path A)

  • ​The Route: UBC Graduation → Day 1 Founder.

  • ​The Vibe: No safety nets. Zero to one. Learning through high-velocity failure and rapid scaling.

• ​The Big Tech Defector (Path B)

  • ​The Route: UBC → FAANG / Scale-up → Founder.

  • ​The Vibe: Learning the "Professional Standard" first. Using corporate resources to build a network before jumping ship to build an empire.

• ​The Strategic Closer (Path C)

  • ​The Route: Startup Founder → Exit/Acquisition → FAANG.

  • ​The Vibe: The full-circle play. Building something from scratch and then leveraging that success to lead at a massive scale.

​FT.
@ Alex/Sepand from OnDeck
@Ron from AWS, ex-Hubly
@Kelsey from Day1

​Agenda

​6:00 – 6:30 PM: Arrival, food, and casual networking
6:30 – 7:00 PM: The Career Crossroads Game.
7:00 – 7:20 PM: Live audience AMA
7:20 PM+: Food, conversations, and open networking