Bill Gurley

And now that it's done and it took a long time, um,

I'm certain at this point that this book has a bigger chance to help more people than any of those other books.

Yeah, when we decided to make the book form, and I say we because I worked hard with my editor and I hired a co-writer for some of it.

And we did a lot of research and one person prodded us to go look at the academic work on careers.

And we talked to a lot of the best professors in the country on careers.

But along the way, we had this idea to launch a Survey Monkey survey, and we asked a thousand people, if you could start your career over again, would you do something different?

And seven out of 10 said yes.

And we did it again with Wharton and did it more scientifically, and it was still six out of 10, but a huge number for people to think they have career regret.

And

There's work that Daniel Pink has done where he talks about as you grow older, it's your regrets of inaction that weigh most on your brain, like the things you didn't do.

Most of us are pretty easy on ourselves when we make a mistake.

We're like, oops, and we move on and you don't ruminate on it much.

But that thing you never tried just eats at you as you get older.

Yeah.

And so I'd like to believe, and we could talk about this as well, but I'm fairly certain that we've gotten so systematic about how we drive kids from being 12 years old into college that we're putting blinders on them almost, and they're not having the opportunity to roam around and explore and find what they love.

And

I think I'm a parent of three.

It is very, very hard for a parent to not want their child to be economically successful.

And so you have this little voice in the back of your head that wants to push them towards the jobs that are considered safe, the safe jobs.

Now, ironically, with AI, many of those, quote, safe jobs aren't that safe.