Last year, I wrote about my internship story because I felt it was such an impactful experience for me. It was simply a story of how working hard and being out in Silicon Valley can lead to very serendipitous occurrences. I don’t think I could have built Mixpanel without the knowledge and connections I gained at Slide. I learned so much about product, how to “get things done” at a real company, and met really close friends that I will take with me forever in life. I was also fortunate enough to work closely with Max, who has been an invaluable mentor and investor for our business.
The point of that post, of course, was to find ourselves interns. We wanted to get a lot of work done, but we also genuinely wanted to give them an extremely meaningful experience like my own. We’d publicly promised them one, so we set out to make good on it. At the end of the summer I asked them to write about what it was like to intern at Mixpanel. I hope those of you that are considering interning at a startup vs. a big company will benefit.