For nearly three decades, Bill Gurley has been among of the most influential voices in Silicon Valley ' a general partner at Benchmark whose early bets on companies like Uber, Zillow, and Stitch Fix helped define what modern venture capital looks like. Now, having moved to Austin and stepped back from active investing, the native Texan is channeling that same pattern-recognition instinct into something different: a book, a foundation, and a policy institute aimed at problems he thinks he can actually move. The book is Runnin' Down a Dream ' a nod to Tom Petty and also an argument that following your passion isn't just romanticized career advice but an actual competitive strategy, one that becomes only more urgent as AI rapidly reshapes the workforce. The foundation, which he's calling the Running Down a Dream Foundation, will award 100 grants of $5,000 a year to people who need a financial cushion to make a leap they've been afraid to take. We caught up with Gurley to talk about all...
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