“Why did you go from CEO to PM?”
I get this question a lot.
“Why would you go from being the CEO of your own startup…
to a product manager at another one?”
On paper, it looks like a step down.
For me, it was the opposite.
Because when I joined nSpire AI, I realized something quickly.
Early-stage startups don’t care about titles.
They care about who is willing to build.
When I first got into product here, I felt like I was learning everything again.
Talking to users.
Breaking down messy problems.
Watching ideas fail.
Fixing things that didn’t work yesterday.
Some days you ship something great.
Other days you realize how much better it could have been.
And that’s when one mindset really stuck with me:
The only good day was yesterday.
Because if you’re building something meaningful,
today should make you a little uncomfortable.
You should see the gaps.
The things to improve.
The problems still unsolved.
That’s the culture that pulled me into nSpire AI.
People often ask me what nSpire actually is.
The simplest way I explain it is this:
Today, hiring decisions rely on signals that were never designed to show what people can actually do.
Resumes.
Single interviews.
Static profiles.
They’re snapshots.
But careers aren’t snapshots.
They’re development over time.
What we’re building at nSpire is something different — a career intelligence layer that connects how people prepare with how employers hire.
So instead of guessing what someone can do,
you can actually see how they develop.
That idea fascinated me enough to go all in.
And along the way, it helped me become a much better product manager.
Still learning.
Still building.
And still believing that if you’re doing it right…
every good day was yesterday.