By | The Muse Editors
When Stan Morodokhin graduated from college in 2013, his priority was to land a job that would help him pay off his student loans as quickly as possible, which led him to working as a recruiter.
“Initially, it was totally a money play,” he says. “I thought to myself, ‘Are they really going to pay me to talk to people?’”
Even though Morodokhin wasn’t thinking about recruitment as a long-term plan, he quickly realized that helping others with their careers was his calling. Today, he’s a recruiting manager for product roles at Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange platform.
“Making connections for people, coaching them every step of the way, and placing them in roles they otherwise would not have found or thought of was what hooked me,” he says.
Here, Morodokhin talks about what led him to Coinbase, why learning to use data has been a game changer in his career, and how he built his impressive whisky collection.
I was always fascinated by blockchain technology and cryptocurrency and Coinbase had been on my radar for quite some time. I wanted to be a part of something that was truly disruptive and would fundamentally change traditional finance.