#1071 - Bill Gurley - If You Hate Your Job, This is How to Start Over

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“a heuristic in the book that I borrowed from Ben Gilbert at Acquired, a lot of podcasters, where he had side hustles at all his jobs. So at each job he went to, he would ask the employer, if I do it on my own time, can I do this other thing also? And there's something really great about that. One, In each of his cases, he ended up doing something pretty remarkable in the side hustle. At Microsoft, he created Microsoft Garage, which became this way for Microsoft to stay relevant with founders. And he met all these founders. All this kind of extra goodies came from that. But I think it all— so you learn more. You learn maybe two— you get two shots on goal instead of one. And I think the employer makes you look proactive so it reflects positively on you. When he ended up at Madrona VC, asked him if he could start a podcast and look where that led. And I just had dinner with both of them and they were in Austin and man, they're happy. Like, I got to tell you, like, they are really happy people.”