Leaving Yammer

After three incredible years, this will be my final week at Yammer. So it may be weird, but I want to use this post to talk about why it's still an awesome place to work.

I came to Yammer as a refugee from the security industry. It turned out I didn't like being in security and I had developed a deep dislike of enterprise software. I saw Yammer as a stepping stone out of enterprise and into consumer.

I was right and I was wrong.

I am ending this journey with skills far beyond those I could have learned at a traditional enterprise company, but I also learned that you can still do good Product and work in enterprise software. Engineers can still build cool shit with cutting edge open source and work in enterprise software.

Yammer taught me this and, a year after being acquired by Microsoft, this kind of work still happens every day.

So why leave?

Well, Yammer did too good a job. I felt like the only next step would be to start something or own product somewhere else, somewhere very small.

What's next?

I'm going to take a couple weeks off and then I'll be joining the team at AnyPerk as the Head of Product. I'll post more on that soon.

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Thanks to the many people who have helped me in my growth here. For the product genius of David Sacks and the organizational design mastery of Adam Pisoni. For the chances to excel from Jim Patterson and Pavan Tapadia.

For now, it's...