Contently COO Recalls Lessons Learned From First Job as Strawberry Picker

Shane Snow, co-founder and chief creative officer of Contently, writes, “My first job inspired me to think like an entrepreneur. Not because it was a startup or anything, but because it was miserable.”

When he was 15, he worked for a farmer down the road from his house by picking strawberries. Every Saturday he “crawled through the rows of dirt, plucking red fruit from tiny leaves.”