Quarles Forfeited Her Investment Banking Bonus to Join Startup Playdom
Krista Quarles · 20VC: A Masterclass in Leadership and Scaling Companies: The Decisions only the CEO Can Make, The Secret To Talent Acquisition and Retention and How To Find The Unscalable Things that are Fundamental To Scale with Christa Quarles, CEO @ Corel Corporation · Jul 29, 2021 · at 4:37
Krista Quarles, CEO of Corel Corporation, shares details about her decision to leave her finance career to enter the startup world.
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“I dove in, I gave away a giant bonus that I was going to get in my old banking world to go join this company. Cause I like, I was like, screw it. I'm just going to go. And I didn't get paid my bonus that year. I left in December and I was going to get paid it three months later, which could have been stupid, but I dived in and went into startup life.”
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