Most People Wait Too Long to Change Their Life - Bill Gurley

What got you into thinking about the idea of career regret as somebody that's had a very seemingly successful and fun career? Why did you think about it? >> I um I used to so I spent 25 years as a venture capitalist and the four years before that as a sellside analyst on Wall Street and through that process I

started writing as a way to differentiate myself and so I was a early blogger. It was actually a fact that's how old I am um when I started and I got in the habit of when I had ideas jotting them down and then you know either developing them a lot of them ended up just undeveloped but I

would if I developed them they would become a blog post and there was a period in my career where I was reading a ton of biographies and I finished this third one and saw a through line with these other two from people that were in wildly different fields and I jotted those notes down and that thing kind of

simmerred and breathed and and took on a little bit of a life and I got asked by the dean of the business school here in Austin at the University of Texas to talk to the NBA class one day and I was like, "Can I do this?" And he said, "Sure." So, I pulled it out and

developed it a little bit as a PowerPoint presentation. Um, anyway, they posted that on YouTube. A few people noticed, some people that have been on your show, James Clear noticed >> and he posted it on his website and people started proddding me to develop it as a book. And um a few years ago, I

decided to begin retirement as a venture capitalist. It actually takes a while unfortunately. And in that window, I thought about doing this. I thought about doing a book. And a lot of people wanted me to do a book. A lot of people wanted me to do a VC book or an investment book or a tell- all book on