Katherine Boyle

It was the worst culture shock of my life.

I had been around the world, but I had not experienced sort of that insular culture of how tech companies are built.

And I'm always impressed with how many people picked up that call.

Yeah.

So I quit my job.

No.

No.

And it's interesting because I know Dino has been on your show and he talked about what it was like as a veteran going to business school, right?

Like you go to business school and you think, oh, I got two years to figure it out.

So you get to business school and like recruiting starts immediately for jobs.

I had no idea.

You know, I was like, what do you mean?

I have no idea what I'm going to do.

I'm a former reporter.

So there was sort of this like kind of, you know, you feel like you're on sort of really shaky ground.

But, you know, my personality is I do very well in those situations.

Like I do very well when I have no idea what I'm gonna do and I have to make a next move.

So crazy story of how I ended up in venture capital is it was 2014 in the fall and I always show up, no one in business school reads books and they have a library at the business school that has only business books but they don't have real books and I'm a reader.

And I walked into the library one day and there's this new book called Zero to One.

It's on the shelf and it's by this guy named Peter Thiel.