Journey

Thoughts on Leadership,
Growth, and Giving Back.

Occasional reflections from David on leadership, career, mentorship, and the lessons that don’t show up on a resume.

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When people picture mentorship, they picture a one-way transfer: the experienced person pours knowledge into the inexperienced one.

Some of the best people I have ever backed were people almost everyone else had passed over. Not

My inbox holds more than I can ever get to, and my calendar is rarely my own. Still,

If I could sit across from the version of me who was just starting, I wouldn’t waste the

Nobody sets out hoping for hard years. But if you try to build anything worth building, they arrive

For much of his early career, David Wilder measured success the way nearly everyone is taught to: by

Some people spend their careers trying to put distance between themselves and where they started. David Wilder has

Ask most successful people to name the turning point in their career, and somewhere in the story there

There is a strange thing about business knowledge: the most valuable parts are not actually secret. How to