Bill Gurley
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And he found three other people that were on that same journey as he, and they were on 16-hour Skype calls all day long.
And he very cleverly used the Malcolm Gladwell phrase, 10,000 hours, and said, we got 40,000 hours because we're,
We're learning together and sharing.
Yeah, that's so smart.
And he also said something that I thought was really compelling.
He said if a fifth person had been on those calls, they'd have made a million dollars.
Like almost de facto because the stuff they were learning was so new and relevant and executable.
you know, that you could go win if you knew these things.
And they were discovering them for the very first time.
And the phrase sharp elbows, I have worked inside of organizations where there are people that just aren't good peers.
You know, they hog the limited equipment.
They, you know, they kiss up.
They you know, you can tell who these people are.
And I would just say stay far, far away from them.
And then the other element of this is get over the notion that you have some kind of proprietary knowledge in your head.
And this goes part and parcel with the public sharing stuff like
Even if you have something in your head that's so compelling and so wonderful, it probably won't be that way 60 days from now.
And I just think the benefit of open sharing far outweighs some advantage you're going to have by keeping knowledge proprietary to yourself.
Yes.
Absolutely.