'Most of my peers didn’t understand my decision...': Former senior employee of Google, Yahoo and Facebook on how 'demotion' helped her career

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In 1999, she began her career with a marketing job at Yahoo right after earning her MBA..

"Most of my peers didnt understand my decision at the time, but I was excited to start in tech," Dulski told Business Insider, also noting how demotions helped shape her career for the better...

After nearly nine years at Yahoo, Dulski left her senior executive role to join a small startup called Dealmap, a decision that many people questioned...

And two years later, I left that much higher-paying Google job to become president and CEO of Change.org, a petition website, before running groups and communities for a few years at Facebook," she told Business Insider...

After 25 years in leadership roles at Yahoo, Google, and Facebook, Dulski started her own company, Rising Team.. "I've taken what I consider the unexpected or less obvious career option at many points along the road..