Prisca, If Only You Were an Elite Employee, But You Were Simply A Great One
Published: March 14, 2026 - 6 min read
The Two Categories
Dan Koe says the future belongs to two categories of people: The Entrepreneurs and The Elite Employees.
And I reflect on the past few months and the types of conversations I've had, the rooms I've been invited into, the job offers and opportunities that have come my way just when I started hunting for myself. Just when I stopped looking.
I'm not here to tell you to become an Entrepreneur or show you how to do so. I'm only 3 months into this journey with full chest awareness that it could fail, yet I'm still going. However, I think back to very specific moments in Past Prisca's life. Moments preceding and during the Skill Development and Refinement Era, the SDR Era, and I can't help but write back to Past Prisca:
- You would have never had to worry about getting a job if you were an elite employee
- You could have spared yourself from those 40 days of mass applications and mass silence if only you were an elite employee
- You wouldn't have experienced crippling financial anxiety if you were an elite employee
- You wouldn't have had to build in complete silence with no one watching, no one cheering, and no dopamine hits to keep you going
- You would have already had a public portfolio. You wouldn't have spent three years telling people you were going to build one before you actually did
- All those cross-functional skills you picked up throughout your Internships and Work Experiences, you would have documented them publicly while you were doing them, not years later on a portfolio that didn't exist yet
- You wouldn't have had to wonder whether the 14-year-old who sat in a room full of adults learning Excel was "enough" to compete in this job market
But you were a good employee. Actually, you were a great one. But you should have been an elite employee.
What Is an Elite Employee?
Dan Koe refers to "Elite Employees" as those who have the traits of entrepreneurs in increasingly rare positions. He says that these categories of people build a public presence, develop cross-functional skills, and at minimum create a public portfolio and develop modern skills that can get them high-paying jobs without a degree.
If you consume Dan Koe's content the way I do, you'll know that his philosophy runs deep. Deep enough that when I found his LifeQuest AI prompt, it literally changed the trajectory of my life. The decisions I've made over the past few months, Montreal, pausing the job search, starting a business, those didn't come from nowhere. They came from hard, honest conversations with an AI agent I built from that prompt. I wrote about it in this blog post.
So when Dan Koe talks about Elite Employees, I don't just nod along. I feel it. I feel it because I lived the opposite for years.
A Peek Into My Journey
Now if you want a peek into my work experience journey, you can visit this page. If you want to go even further to understand the role I played at each of those companies, there are blog posts attached to each of them. But throughout this series, I'm going to speak to Past Prisca and tell her exactly what she could have done with all her work and life experiences to go from being a great employee to becoming an elite employee.
Over the next few blog posts related to this topic, I want to speak to Past Prisca as a way of communicating to YOU reading this. Everything I tell Past Prisca is a direct message to transform you into an elite employee.
Before You Offer Me a Job
If you're reading this and out of care, you want to offer me a full-time job for whatever reason... please understand that I will say no. Not because I think I'm better or above being an employee. I honestly think I play the role of being an ultimate employee through the path I'm walking right now. I just happen to have multiple employers.
So please read this post about why my best work happens when I'm staring at a wall to better understand why I will say no. And keep in mind that if and when this journey of PriscaSolutionsAI fails, I will make a public announcement here on LinkedIn that I'm looking for a job.
On Failure and Ego
Yes, even while already serving multiple clients, I have now reached the point where I understand that failure is normal and I'm not going to let my ego stop me from pivoting or asking for help if that ever becomes the case. Past Prisca would not even believe I'm writing these words... and plan to post them online.
But when you've walked the path I've walked, challenged yourself in the ways that I have, taken the sort of risks that I have taken, you come to realize that failure, rejection, feedback... that is what you should ultimately strive for. You will see the need to realign your life to maximize your failure rate because that is the only path to self-improvement, growth, and ultimately, extraordinary service.
I emphasize extraordinary service because that is what I aim to provide to everyone and every company that trusts me with solving their problems, whether it be through building custom AI solutions or teaching them how to automate repetitive tasks and build workflows themselves in workshops.
Coming Up Next
So stay tuned for the next post in this series where I break down exactly what (or who) an Elite Employee is from my own perspective.
As always, thanks for reading!