Kathryn Gould: Remember What Matters to You

Okay, you said it's not the calls you take, it's the calls you make in life too. Is that your life motto?

Well, it's certainly.

What does it mean? First of all, it.

Certainly wasn't a venture business. This is my little saying that I love. I don't know if people even make calls anymore. Don't you guys, like, tweet and stuff like that? But anyway, what it means is this. When you're out in the real world, both in startups and venture capital, but for sure, venture capital, so much stuff is coming at you, you're just like overwhelmed. You can stay very insanely busy just responding to the stuff that comes to you. And what that saying means to me is, don't do that. Make sure that you keep in your mind your agenda, your goals, what matters to you and what kind of moves the state of the art forward, and make sure that every week you at least work a little bit on those things that matter to you, rather than just like deal with all the shit that's coming your way, which is always a lot. And I think in the venture capital context, if you look at most of my really great startups, they weren't guys that called me. I called them, I found them, and that's pretty huge.