""It just felt like falling off a cliff," Graham, now the founder of Glue Club, said in a recent interview on Lenny Rachitsky's podcast. "Taking risks, accepting the terrible fall and that experience of falling has been more than worth it." Graham described the experience as part of what she calls the "J-curve" - a career trajectory where a risky move leads to an initial drop before eventually producing outsized gains. Visually, she describes it as standing on a ledge, stepping off, sinking briefly, and then rising far higher than where you started - just like the shape of the letter J."
"At 25 years old, Molly Graham was thriving in Facebook's HR department when a senior executive urged her to transfer out of her stable role and help build a mobile phone instead. She took the risk - and it could have derailed her career. But Graham, who later became a C-suite executive at some of America's biggest companies and philanthropies, now views that risky bet as one of the most important moves she ever made."
Molly Graham left a stable HR role at Facebook at 25 to help build a mobile phone after being recruited by a senior executive. The move felt like a steep fall and threatened her career, but surviving it enabled later leadership roles in major companies and philanthropies. Graham calls the pattern a "J-curve": an initial decline after a big career bet followed by outsized gains. The J-curve contrasts with steady, incremental promotion paths and emphasizes jumping into roles one may not yet feel ready for to generate the most valuable professional growth.
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