My Ureeka Moment

Dave Jakubowski
Nov 5 · 4 min read

I thought I had the perfect career, successful start-ups, great jobs with the most influential tech companies on the planet. I was privileged to be given a chance and lucky enough to have had some success. But something wasn’t right.

Helping companies grow has long been a passion, so I took that success and began to advise, sit on boards, invest; the usual tri-fecta of Silicon Valley naval gazing. I was helping the next big tech companies grow and that’s a good thing, right?

Today, I realize, that there was one common element across each “success” — access to help. It’s as…

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