Bill Gurley

And there are fields where continuous learning is somewhat required.

The medical profession is one where that happens.

And obviously, there are fields like ballet, where if someone says they work 16 hours a week or a day, we all applaud it, which is weird.

Because if you said that about an engineering career, they'd say, you're a bad human.

But whatever.

So this notion of learning constantly in your spare time, I think it's just the best test of whether you're truly obsessed with what you're doing.

Especially if they get to hang around with the smartest people.

You know who's doing that right now, which is super interesting?

The young AI founders.

They've embraced this meme from China, 996.

It actually was developed in China, which means 9 a.m.

to 9 p.m.

six days a week.

That's what it stands for.

But they used the phrase.

And Silicon Valley got lazy in COVID.

So you have the situation where the broader culture had moved from being formerly a bit workaholic to being lazy.

And despite the...

You know, they literally aren't coming into the office.

You can go in downtown San Francisco and look through buildings, you know, because there's so much cubicle space with no one there.