About 100 hours in, I was already beyond excited.
I had not finished my Shutterstock handoff yet, but I had been putting real time into Reonomy. The company was building a data research platform for commercial real estate brokers, investors, and lenders. It was early, the team was small, and there was a lot to work through.
Those first hundred hours were some of the best working hours I had experienced in recent memory.
I was still learning the product, the people, the customers, and the decisions already inside the company. Nothing about that was finished. The excitement came from getting close enough to the work to see how much could be built.
Before making the move, I had tried to understand every variable. I made plans for product and engineering, talked through the role, and asked a lot of questions about what the company needed. I like having a clear picture before a major decision. It helps me make the choice and then own it.
The early work made the decision feel less theoretical. I was not only looking at a job description or listening to a pitch. I was spending hours on the actual company and still wanting more.
I sent a short note thanking one of the people who had pushed me to take the opportunity seriously. The useful line was simple: I was beyond excited to give this endeavor my full attention.
That full attention was coming soon. There was still work to finish at Shutterstock and a handoff to do properly. Reonomy already had about a hundred hours from me. I was ready to see what happened when it got all of them.