By Edward Wexler-Beron WG’14, 2013-14 Neff Entrepreneurial Intern Fellow at CommonBond
There were several factors that drove me to work at a startup over the summer. At the top of this list was my desire to experience culture and work environment at a startup (which admittedly can vary widely). Although I had launched a startup within eBay, as part of the Business Incubation Group, it was a little different – after all, my paycheck was guaranteed, we had the resources of a large company behind us, and we still had to deal with some of the bureaucracy and politics that comes with a corporate setting. I wanted to know what it was like to be at a sub-10 person venture, to have the continued existence and success of the company dependent on the daily contributions of the team, and to understand how culture was created in early stage companies. I felt that given my personality and desire to play a core role in shaping the growth and environment at my future workplace, smaller companies were the right space for me in the long run.
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