Bill Gurley
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And a few years ago, I decided to begin retirement as a venture capitalist.
It actually takes a while, unfortunately.
And in that window, I thought about doing this.
I thought about doing a book.
And a lot of people wanted me to do a book.
A lot of people wanted me to do a VC book or an investment book or a tell-all book on the Uber experience.
And I was more drawn to this idea.
Um, and a few other people prodded me who said, you know, like go, go do.
And it felt more authentic.
It felt like something that could have a bigger impact.
And I was drawn to that at this moment in my life, I was drawn to this particular thing.
So I spent like six years.
working with a co-writer and researcher developing it further and making it this way.
But you used the word regret.
We did, along the way, I launched a survey on SurveyMonkey that said if you could go back
and start over, would you do a different career?
And seven out of 10 people said yes.
And I eventually took that to Wharton People Analytics, and they did a more scientific version of it, much broader audience, and came back six out of 10, but very similar.
And that notion of career regret's interesting.
I had the opportunity to talk to Daniel Pink, who you may know, who wrote a book.