Bill Gallagher explains why new entrepreneurs need mentorship. He describes the "I don't know what I don't know" stage when starting a company and draws on his own experience with an English degree to show why outside guidance matters.
I've always been someone who likes to surround myself with help and reaches out for help. I've just have never shied away from doing that. So even when I was building my company, that was one of the most important things for me to do was to find people that could really help me know what I needed to learn. Because so often when we embark on any endeavor, we're in the I don't know what I don't know quadrant. We're not even in the I know what I don't know quadrant. We're in the I don't know what I don't know quadrant. And I knew, especially as being someone who had an undergraduate degree in English with a concentration in Shakespeare, that I. I knew running a business while I had a passion and I had vision, you know, and I had a feeling for the impact that I could make in the world. I knew that I needed help from those who had done it well and potentially even those who had not done it so well.
