Rex Salisbury – Quitting Can Be a Very Important Skill to Exercise

<p><strong>BIO: </strong>Rex Salisbury is the Founder &amp; General Partner at Cambrian Ventures, a pre-seed &amp; seed focused fintech fund.</p><p><strong>STORY:</strong> Rex’s biggest mistake ever was sticking with his initial career too long, even though he knew he shouldn’t have been working that job.</p><p><strong>LEARNING:</strong> Invest in the skill that you want to move into as much as you. Build networks early in your career.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><blockquote class="ql-align-center"><strong>“Make yourself marketable. It’s amazing what you can learn if you invest in certain things.”</strong></blockquote><blockquote class="ql-align-center">Rex Salisbury</blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p><h2>Guest profile</h2><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rexsalisbury/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><strong>Rex Salisbury</strong></a> is the Founder &amp; General Partner at <a href="https://www.cambrianhq.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cambrian Ventures</a>, a pre-seed &amp; seed focused fintech fund. He previously was a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he helped launch the fintech vertical. He has over a decade of experience working in finance &amp; fintech, primarily as a software engineer, before becoming a venture capitalist.</p><h2>Worst investment ever</h2><p>Rex’s biggest mistake ever was sticking with his initial career too long. Rex attended a small liberal arts college on the American east coast—Davidson. He had a great experience and made a lot of good lifelong friends. Rex studied economics and also got a major in history.</p><p>During his senior year, Rex worked in investment banking, specifically for Merrill Lynch. He also did an internship in South Africa and studied formal money lending. After college, Rex went to work in a bank. He believed that since banks are big businesses, there must be interesting work to do.</p><p>Unfortunately, the experience wasn’t what Rex had imagined. He hated his job and had begun thinking about quitting from the second month on the job. But he kept