On August 2011 I began working at Wuaki.tv, it was one of the biggest challenges that I faced since I moved to Spain when I was 23 years old.

I remember when we were a small startup of 11 people (I was employee number 12 I think) and how we fought to develop a competitive product day to day. I also remember when Youzee launched in Madrid, almost 8 months after I started at Wuaki.tv and the ideas that we had when this happened, because I think at some point we were a little scared.

Some of us considered Youzee and Filmin our allies, I think they could helped us develop a model of service that provides the users with better prices and competitive catalogs overtime but this idea faded away when Wuaki.tv was acquired by Rakuten group and Youzee was practically shut down.

A couple of weeks ago, was The Next Web meetup at Strella Damn Factory in Barcelona, Heather Russel @heatherarussell made an epic presentation about what you need to do to start your own business and all the bullshit we hear everyday. One of the key phrases was:

Following your passion is bullshit: no one gives a shit about what you love to do”

Most of her presentation can be applied to any role on a startup, so I really recommend it.

When you decide to get into this world, and in order to succeed on the “geeky” or “dark” side of the organisation you can choose two roads, one of them is to work your ass off because you enjoy what you are doing and not doing (Yes, you have to enjoy also not going to the movies, or not having a beer with a friend that you haven’t seen in years), or you can do your normal 40hours/week job, with 1 hour for lunch everyday.

You can also build your career either being a complete asshole, doing the minimum effort and creating more problems than the ones you are solving or you can provide that extra value to your job being disruptive about it, create opportunities, provide and develop ideas or even breaking the stablished order so you can make a valuable project, but at the end, sooner or later you will have to decide which type of employee.

During the past 2 years I have seen people on both sides, I’m not going to lie to you about it, you can get rewarded on both paths but I prefer the one where you can “Do the right thing and wait ‘til get fired”, because I love what I do, and I want to make the difference instead of warming the bench.

I want to be that employee ready to take risks, make decisions, try new things, move fast and even break things.