Bill Gurley

Longtime Benchmark general partner, author of Runnin' Down a Dream

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Key ideas

Career

When AI is changing your job

Decision Making

History and the Edge

Learn the masters of your field and its newest tools. Gurley says the person who brings both gets the job.

If you bring both of those things to the table, you are highly compelling.
Bill Gurley on The Tim Ferriss Show Watch at 1:17:16
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Disagreements

Start from what fascinates you, or from the life you want?

Bill Gurley

treats your own curiosity as the guide. If you read about a field at night without being asked, and its history fascinates you, go deep in that field. The depth is what sets you apart.

Cal Newport

warns against working forward from something you have labeled a passion. He has people picture the daily life they want a few years and ten years out, then work backwards to the career capital that would pay for it.

From History and the Edge

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