Last week was my last one at The Next Web as their Director of Marketing. For the last four years I’ve worked alongside great people: publishing the best content (TNW), organising the best + biggest tech conferences (TNW Conferences), selling the craziest drones (TNW Deals), creating the most beautiful workspace (TQ) and them who collect a ton of data on the global tech industry (Index.co). But still… it’s time for me to move on to something new:
Project: ‘New adventures’
As of Monday I’ll be joining Postmates to help out/lead their SEO strategy, which means I’m already in San Francisco to join the team from there.
For the last 7 years I’ve been maintaining a list of goals that I update every day/week/month with the things I’d like to achieve on a personal and business level in the (near) future. Since my first trip to the US many years ago one of the goals that I created was to move to the Bay Area for x months > x years, mainly to see if my skills would hold up in the more competitive and global area that I consider the Bay Area to be. Having had the ability to spend 6 weeks in/around San Francisco at the end of last year it made it even easier to decide that I wanted to move towards that area the sooner the better.
Having had some very positive changes in my life over the course of the last year it made the choice even easier ? #analyticspowercouple.
In talking to Postmates I found that my passion for SEO, Growth, Analytics, Innovation could even be more stimulated so joining them is a great opportunity to develop myself even more.
Some highlights and numbers from my time at TNW: 8 TNW conferences, 35+ conferences, 60+ flights, xx blog posts, 415 million users, 342 A/B tests, 1465 commits, 231 Gitlab tickets, 111827 messages on Slack.
What I’m not going to miss from my time at TNW:
- The most ridiculous PR pitches from companies that aren’t relevant to TNW 😉
- Product & startup pitches in my inbox that aren’t relevant or not ready for the scale of TNW 😉
- Endless analysis on what content is supposed to attract more engagement + traffic 😉 – Still haven’t found the answer if your curious.
What I’ll be missing though:
- The great opportunity that I got from Boris & Patrick in having me built out the marketing team.
- Very passionate people trying to improve TNW every day just a little bit more.
- A great team, that I’ll truly miss working with.
Overall, I’m ready for the new challenge at Postmates and very enthusiastic about working with a new (growing) team and trying to reach world domination. If you’re around in the future, please let me know. I’ll definitely be sticking to my current strategy: trying to meet with great people across the industry to learn from. So, drinks on me!
If you want to reach out to me, you can find me at: martijn.scheijbeler@gmail.com