Bill Gurley

Like, my main goal in life is to help other people.

Serve.

My only point was these people that are able to climb from the bottom rung to the top and do it in the right way end up touching hundreds and hundreds of lives.

I mean, one of my favorite on that front is many years ago, because I was involved with Open Table, I met Danny Meyer.

and who's the famous restaurateur in New York that also built Shake Shack.

He has a great book, Setting the Table, if people haven't read it.

But if you talk to people in the restaurant industry, and they worked even for a year at a Danny Meyer restaurant,

It's like meaningful to them.

Like it's on their resume.

They talk about it all the time.

Like there's almost this church of Danny Meyer, like for everyone that rolled through it.

That's got to be, that's got to just feel amazing.

What is it about his demeanor or culture or ethos?

The book talks about this kind of understated sensibility to his book, to hospitality.

Yeah.

Um, like, like just trying to read the room on each and every customer and really understand, you know, what they're, what they're trying to optimize and to help them do that as much as possible.

But his, his journey is about more than that.

That's what his book's about.

His journey is about being hyper curious and, and an excessive learner.

Like every single step along the way, including today, he's still doing it.