Brad Feld on why passion and curiosity matter in entrepreneurship and venture capital. He reflects on personal motivations and what drives people to create things that actually matter, not just chase money or status.
That's again coming tied all the way back to this notion of learning and trying things just to learn how they work and to learn how you feel about how they work. Now scale it up one more level, you say. That's nice. The last 15 or so minutes have been this personal rant rather than this rant about how venture capital works. Who gives a shit about how venture capital works? Because really, the essence of what you're trying to do, if you're an entrepreneur or if you're investing in entrepreneurs, is create amazing new things that impact all of us. And if that's the path you're on and you're not curious about how life works, and you're not curious about how your life works, and you're not thinking about the dynamics of all of those things and how they fit together, why are you doing it? You take it a step further if you listen to my again, my father reminding us all as he morbidly looks over my shoulder and tells me that someday they'll stick me in a box. Why are you doing it anyway? Unless you're really passionate about it, unless it's something you care about, unless it's something that you want to do. And, oh, by the way, all of the tactics around it, which you can get from all different kinds of places, probably don't matter that much if you're not working on something that you're completely focused on, completely obsessed about love to do, and are trying to do with perfection.
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