So I decided to move on from my 5 years at a healthcare startup and start a new chapter in my career.

One of my mentors identified a weakness in my skillset which was the fact that I was too comfortable and getting very good at doing product management the same way for 5 years. He told me he specifically lasts only 2–3 years max at any employer because you need to grow yourself to learn how to build businesses and products in various ways so that you can respond swiftly to any situation you face. The only way to do so is by exposing yourself to new problems you have never solved or been exposed to before and learning from your mistakes/failures.

This advice really resonated with me because I have done nothing but deliberately try to rapidly grow in my overall product development experience and suddenly realized … he was right. I was in cruise-control to an extent and my most recent set of challenges and product road-map items were not conducive to my personal career growth and were merely rinse and repeat features. It was time to move on.