After 2 years, 7 months, and 7 days at Amazon.com, I’ve decided to make a major career change.
May 16th was my last day at Amazon. After about a week of a half of vacation I’m starting all over today at blist.com, a small, early-stage startup in Pioneer Square, Seattle. My tentative job title is “Technical Project Manager”, but my actual work will encompass so much more. I’m looking forward to working with such a young, ambitious company and getting the chance to leverage my skills and experience in ways that will hopefully help make them very successful.
In my tenure at Amazon, I had the opportunity to work with so many awesome people that I can’t count how many people I need to thank. I still love Amazon and all it’s hard working employees, but this opportunity at blist was too good to pass up. They’re small, scrappy, and have a grand vision of the future, probably much like Amazon did when it was starting out. It’s a big jump, but it should be a great ride, and I look forward to being able to accomplish some great things.
Photo borrowed from TheMahers Seattle Lunch2.0 photoset on flickr
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Hey Chris,
Welcome to the startup world! I guess I shouldn’t really be saying welcome because I haven’t participated in a true startup yet… just some projects that aspire to be startups. But, I am active in the startup community including Seattle Tech Startups, nPost, Saturday House, Startup Weekend etc. Maybe this means we’ll see more of each other. I met the founder and CEO of blist, Kevin Merritt, at an event a few weeks ago. It’s a pretty cool product. I’m sure you’ll enjoy working on it.
-Kyle
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