Gurley advises moving to your industry's epicenter because it amplifies learning, mentorship, peers, and optionality.
“If your industry has an epicenter, and we're sitting in an epicenter, but like if like, and you are confident this is your fascination lane, you should go.”
Gurley argues moving to an industry's epicenter amplifies all career advantages including learning, mentors, and peers.
“Because all the other principles in the book get better. So I talk about continuous learning, I talk about finding mentors, I talk about finding peers.”
Gurley observes Silicon Valley has unusually high willingness to give advice to strangers, similar to Nashville songwriters.
“In Silicon Valley, if you walk up to somebody that you don't know and ask them for advice, the probability that they say yes and spend time is higher than you would ever expect.”
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“I could have, I think, fooled myself. And I went through this mental model when I was thinking about it and said, oh, I'll be the best venture capitalist in a the sixth VC city.”
Gurley describes Fidel stalking General Magic for six months after reading Rolling Stone, passing up Apple offer.
“These were the individuals of Apple and they had all left to go to a company, General Magic. He didn't know what they did.”