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Sabra Meretab is a writer, speaker, and former Silicon Valley engineering leader exploring ambition, self-doubt, burnout, and what makes a life feel meaningful. A Stanford graduate, she spent nearly a decade in technology, including helping lead large engineering organizations at Stripe during its hypergrowth years. She is the author of the forthcoming memoir Insecure Overachiever: A Story of Ambition, Burnout and the Courage to Want Something Else, publishing February 23, 2027.

Sabra Meretab is a writer, speaker, and former Silicon Valley engineering leader whose work explores ambition, self-doubt, burnout, and the search for a life that feels meaningful. A Stanford graduate, she spent nearly a decade in technology, working at Visa before joining Stripe, where she rose through product and technical leadership roles to become one of the company's youngest engineering leaders during its hypergrowth years.

From the outside, the trajectory looked remarkably successful. Inwardly, it was more complicated—burnout, migraines, and a persistent sense that no amount of achievement ever quite felt like enough. Rather than walking away overnight, she began to investigate the questions she had spent years outrunning: what happens when success stops feeling like fulfillment, when burnout is a symptom of something deeper, and when the hardest path to leave is the one you are already good at—a fear she calls hero syndrome.

Those questions became her writing and speaking, and the foundation of her forthcoming memoir, Insecure Overachiever, publishing February 23, 2027 from Girl Friday Productions.