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What have been the biggest accelerators to your careers?

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  1. Jeremy Hemsworth
    Jeremy Hemsworth

    Atlassian Sr. Director of Product Marketing • 5mo

    A few things have consistently accelerated my career. Looking back, they fall into three buckets: deliberate transitions, compounding experiences, and well-timed company moves. Making a clean career transition with intent. I moved from sales into marketing through an MBA. That gave me a solid grounding in fundamentals, exposure to real projects, and a network I still rely on. More importantly, it let me reset my trajectory instead of drifting into marketing sideways. Choosing work that compounds ...Read More

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  2. Nelson Haung
    Nelson Haung

    Klaviyo Sr. Director Product Marketing | Formerly Salesforce, Freshworks, and a few early stage startups • 5mo

    I would say it’s a confluence of 3 things that come to mind. Being at the right company at the right time — I joined Salesforce in 2013 as it was really starting to scale up. The PMM teams at that time were still relatively small for the scale of revenue, and so I had a chance to learn and try everything in the broad scope of PMM. There’s something to be said for starting your PMM career at a well-established company where PMM was highly valued, and the infrastructure as well as experts were in ...Read More

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