Bill Gurley

It was like very fulfilling.

And so when I went to University of Florida, I got a computer engineering degree, enjoyed that process and went to work at Compaq, which at the time was a very hot startup in Houston in the personal computer industry.

And yeah, so that was the first one.

And that was the reason I got there.

What happened was

Two years in, we started the third project from when I had joined, and it looked like the second project, which looked like the first, which is part of what got me wondering if I was going to grow bored doing this type of work.

And then when I was at home, I had read this book, One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch, and I had started trading stocks.

So once I'd get into this test in my free time, I was playing with something else.

I wasn't—

learning about the work.

I was learning about this other thing.

And so I went to business school, ended up on Wall Street.

It was awesome.

Being in Manhattan in your late 20s, just fantastic.

Met so many great people, met so many great investors, and enjoyed reading about investing, enjoyed being a part of Wall Street.

Once again, three years in,

I just started to think about the job and what I was doing every day and said, do I want to do this my whole life?

And came to, once again, to a conclusion, no, I don't.

And I had, along the way, been building up this thought process that I wanted to be in venture capital.

And the opportunity came to move to Silicon Valley.