Bill Gurley

So he got two shots on goal, if you will, at the same time.

And at Microsoft, he helped create Microsoft Garage, which...

was differentiating for him and caused him to meet a bunch of entrepreneurs he wouldn't have met otherwise.

That got him into a job at a venture capitalist at Maveron, and he asked them as a side hustle if he could do a podcast.

And you can see where that took him there.

And so that's just one.

There's many other ideas in the book, but keep exploring, keep moving around, keep looking for it.

And even in that movement process, I think you can differentiate yourself.

The first thing that popped in my mind, Ed, is just being a student of the game and studying.

And this is advice I have in my book for anyone in any field.

But there are a handful of investors who have read all Buffett's letters and kind of hang on every word when Howard Marks puts out a new letter.

There's a ton of information out there.

about investing and people or rating.

Today, I mean, one of the most amazing things about this AI world is if you want to learn something, it's never been easier in the history of the world to go learn and study.

There's podcasts with people like yourselves.

There's YouTube videos, interviews with people.

Like you can go study, study, study.

I think Toby from Shopify, someone asked him his number one piece of advice.

He just said, read more books.

And I really, for me, that's the thing.