Operations Manager at a Mexico City logistics company: meetup talk, then an internal opening, then equity

One twenty-minute conversation at a logistics meetup turned into an internal job posting that landed in my inbox before it was on the company's careers page. I'd been an operations manager at a small ecommerce company in Mexico City for three years. The company grew fast for two years and then plateaued. I'd hit my own ceiling on what I could change there. I'd been quietly looking for a role at a logistics-focused company, but the search wasn't going anywhere. Partly because I wasn't actively applying. Partly because most logistics-focused companies in Mexico City didn't have the kind of public hiring process that made it easy to know what was open. I went to a logistics meetup in late autumn, mostly because a friend was speaking. The COO of a Mexico City logistics company was in the audience and we ended up next to each other during the coffee break. We talked for about twenty minutes. It was specifically about a problem her team was working on at the time, how to scale warehouse operations from one site to four sites, and I described how we'd handled a similar problem at half the scale. We swapped WhatsApp numbers because she wanted to send me a paper she'd been reading on the topic. Three weeks later she messaged me. The ↓