Bill Gurley

I was doing fine.

I was making plenty of money.

But I did this exercise in my head where I said,

do I want to do this the rest of my life?

Like just a moment of reflection, I said, do I want to spend 30 years doing what I'm doing now?

And in both of the first two cases, I reached a point where I was like, no, I'm pretty certain I don't want to do this for 30 years.

And then I moved on.

And I think having the gumption to move on and the confidence to move on is hard but super valuable if you know you're not there.

And I don't regret either of those two stopping points in my career.

I built upon them, and they were both relevant.

They were both helpful to what I did later.

Mm-hmm.

So I think, you know, one thing that's important on that point for very young people, if you get a job and immediately build your expenses right up against that salary, then you might not have the flexibility to pivot down the road.

So be careful.

You know.

Okay, it's super easy.

So like many people who ended up in Silicon Valley, I had a computer early in my life.

So I had a Commodore VIC-20 plugged into a TV, didn't have memory.

Yeah, it was early, really early.

And but I found I liked writing programs.