Padraig McKee

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Leaving PR.co after 11 years

A short reflection on leaving PR.co after 11 years, the people I shared the journey with, and the start of a new chapter.

I’ve never really left a job.

Well, except as a teenager, for that vakkenvuller job at the Appie. I more or less stopped showing up.

But a few weeks ago I did. I left PR.co after 11 years.

I originally found that job through AMSxTech Slack a day after being let go at a startup. Jeroen Bos DM’d me, we met the next day, and shortly after I joined as the sole designer.

Back then we were building out of the TNW office in Amsterdam, surrounded by startups, founders, events and people building cool things. I loved the energy.

The TNW era became the TQ era became the fully remote era. We grew from a startup into a profitable, sustainable software company, and had a lot of fun figuring it out along the way.

I’m proud of that, and grateful to everyone who was part of that journey (shoutout to you all). In particular Jeroen Bos and Sjors Mahler, who I worked alongside for about a decade. A decade! (Yee-haw boys!)

Crossing into double digits felt symbolic somehow. It planted the seed to think about what the next chapter should look like.

That seed took a while to grow. A few weeks ago, I left properly. Professionally this time!

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