Ian Myers

I think enough change is called chaos.

I think enough change is called chaos.

Absolutely. I couldn't agree more. I would just say I think it's the important work you're doing here. People, too many of the podcasts that I listen to are about how to hack your way to success, are about practical advice on how to build a certain type of business, how to buy real estate. We've gotten to a place in content where

Absolutely. I couldn't agree more. I would just say I think it's the important work you're doing here. People, too many of the podcasts that I listen to are about how to hack your way to success, are about practical advice on how to build a certain type of business, how to buy real estate. We've gotten to a place in content where

Where it's all about tactical advice that you might pay for or take a course on or something like that. And of course I'm generalizing, but I guess my point is it's refreshing to have a microphone to a topic that is more about how to guide people's lives through change. And for people listening who are experiencing a lot of change in their lives, tactical advice doesn't really help.

Where it's all about tactical advice that you might pay for or take a course on or something like that. And of course I'm generalizing, but I guess my point is it's refreshing to have a microphone to a topic that is more about how to guide people's lives through change. And for people listening who are experiencing a lot of change in their lives, tactical advice doesn't really help.

Hearing just holistically and qualitatively about the human experience in times of change, I think is a really reassuring thing. So I just want to applaud the work you did, Vince.

Hearing just holistically and qualitatively about the human experience in times of change, I think is a really reassuring thing. So I just want to applaud the work you did, Vince.

Good morning, Vince, or good evening.

Good morning, Vince, or good evening.

Yeah, and the reason I think it's important to talk about college is it's something that people are increasingly not interested in doing these days. Also worried about whether or not it's going to help them get a job, not get a job, waste of money, waste of time. For me, I just wanted to spend four years studying something that was interesting to me.

Yeah, and the reason I think it's important to talk about college is it's something that people are increasingly not interested in doing these days. Also worried about whether or not it's going to help them get a job, not get a job, waste of money, waste of time. For me, I just wanted to spend four years studying something that was interesting to me.

So I studied literature, and a big part of my journey has just been writing. Following what was interesting in the moment and not necessarily thinking about my career as a series of points on a line that I had to achieve, which I think a lot of people do. And it actually might serve to hurt people more than it helps them. So I studied literature in school.

So I studied literature, and a big part of my journey has just been writing. Following what was interesting in the moment and not necessarily thinking about my career as a series of points on a line that I had to achieve, which I think a lot of people do. And it actually might serve to hurt people more than it helps them. So I studied literature in school.

I went to grad school for international policy because I loved interacting with people from all over the world. I had lived in Asia for a little while, studied abroad in Japan. And that brought me to work with a Japanese asset manager who was investing in venture funds in the U.S. And that was quite a cross-cultural experience.

I went to grad school for international policy because I loved interacting with people from all over the world. I had lived in Asia for a little while, studied abroad in Japan. And that brought me to work with a Japanese asset manager who was investing in venture funds in the U.S. And that was quite a cross-cultural experience.

Speaking Japanese, I was something of a translator, both linguistically and culturally. And that was my first exposure as someone who had a pretty mundane academic background to venture in startups and technology and flashy growth and lots of money and millions of dollars in financing. And it's hard not to... Feel the allure of that world.

Speaking Japanese, I was something of a translator, both linguistically and culturally. And that was my first exposure as someone who had a pretty mundane academic background to venture in startups and technology and flashy growth and lots of money and millions of dollars in financing. And it's hard not to... Feel the allure of that world.

If anyone's been in it, been around it, seen it, it's exciting. So naturally, I left banking. I went into venture capital and became an investor at a firm in New York. Spent some time there. Very rewarding. Met a lot of great people. But of course, the thing that happens when you're young and in venture is you always look at the entrepreneurs who are building companies and you say, wow.

If anyone's been in it, been around it, seen it, it's exciting. So naturally, I left banking. I went into venture capital and became an investor at a firm in New York. Spent some time there. Very rewarding. Met a lot of great people. But of course, the thing that happens when you're young and in venture is you always look at the entrepreneurs who are building companies and you say, wow.