Bill Gurley

You can ask those questions.

Is this the same in your job?

You're vulnerable with peers.

You wouldn't do that with a mentor.

Right.

Like, especially if you get the peer group in the right place, you tell them I'm struggling here.

Like, um, so I think it, I think it's just a different purpose.

Um, with, I think mentors are extremely important, but I think the idyllic version of a mentor is a bit broken because we encourage a lot of young people to cold call too high where the rejection rate's going to be 98%.

Because the CFO of this company doesn't want to be friends with you.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah.

But it happens constantly.

And so what I encourage people to do is divide mentorship into two different categories.

Have aspirational mentors.

And just like that file folder for your dream job, create one for each of them.

Like study them like a kid might study Star Wars

characters or something.

You know what I'm saying?

Like really get enamored with these people that you idolize as aspirational mentors.

And one, you're gonna learn a lot studying them.