The life of a Digital Marketing Intern in a tech startup isn't always easy.
One day can be good, another one not as much. One day you can spend more time exchanging emails with your coworkers than spending time actually accomplishing a task already overdue...
But most of the time, there's a smile on your face, may it be the friendly atmosphere, a great piece of advice from your supervisor, or even having a talk with your CEO and realizing that you're in a different place.
Let me develop the latter example. Earlier this week, I had a face to face meeting with someone I consider to be one of the most successful European entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley.
As we were brainstorming on a topic together, he depicted his vision of this subject, and that's where I realised something:
-first of all, I had made it. My past work, luck, and nights spent at home on the internet had finally paid off.
-I was having this one-to-one conversation with him, and we were both on equal levels, working for the greater good of the team and company.
-He used simple facts and ideas to try to picture the future, and what we needed to make it happen.
This has been by far the most important and inspiring conversation I've ever had, and the best part is that it came out of nowhere, I realized it as it happened, and even long after it was over, I could still feel the impact of the talk on myself.
I do believe in great CEOs and entrepreneurs, but I also strongly believe that if they have a great team, then that's how the ideas become reality, and the company encounters success.
So if you wonder how my life has been for the last two months, I'm doing good, thank you.
I've been working on a lot of things, from a website's draft layout to ordering t-shirts and stickers. Today's I got some flyers and business cards printed.
I also work on supporting our users, in French, English, and sometimes Spanish, on Twitter and on our support platform too.
Oh and did I mention that we're helping the sales industry work on the go?
No it's not always easy, and I can screw up like any human being, but everyday from the moment I wake up, I know that whatever happens I'm living one of my wildest dreams, to the maximum.
And in case you were wondering, Loïc Le Meur is a great entrepreneur as well as an inspiring person. And so is the rest of the Seesmic team. But then again I'm probably biased...
