885: Landing Your Career’s “Pivot Position” | Robert Mitchell, CFO, Zepz
Robert Mitchell had been sizing up new venture opportunities for PayPal for roughly 3 years when the door to an operations role swung open.
Impressed by his financial modeling know-how, Mitchell tells us, PayPal’s credit bosses “handpicked” him to create a framework for launching and monitoring new credit offerings.
For Mitchell, there was no turning back.
“They just told me that I was a smart guy and that I could figure things out,” recalls Mitchell, who adds that the fact that the new position was in Brussels didn’t even give him pause.
From the start, Mitchell viewed the position as a…
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