Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love

by Bill Gurley

An upcoming book to be published by Penguin Random House.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Self Help, Audiobook, Personal Development, Biography, Psychology

272 pages, Hardcover

Published February 24, 2026

Reviews

[Bradley Haering · Rating 1 out of 5]

An inspiring lecture that should have remained a lecture.

Poorly written, repetitive. Studies mentioned with no references.

Not crediting Mark Twain for Benchmark’s motto is strange.

If you have never read a self-help business book in your life, this is probably fine.

[Spencer May · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best of the year & I don’t see that changing!

This book may be the one I recommend to anyone who wants to talk careers, jobs, etc. Need Bill Gurley to sponsor me tho b/c the paperback is $25.99.👀

It includes engaging retellings of stories of people who not only found success, but also meaning in careers. I especially like how he tells the stories with a pseudonym or cloaks their real identity & then concludes each chapter or section:
• “This musician was Bob Dylan, the most famous singer dude ever [my words].”
• “Robert was Bobby Knight, the winningest coach in basketball history.”

I also appreciated that it wasn’t a memoir, an explicit choice the author made, and he spares readers of his success stories until the Epilogue. Bill wasn’t trying to sell us on what worked for him, instead offering timeless principles & practices to succeed & find meaning.

[Keven Wang · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is is my most anticipated book release for the year. Love love love it. Will buy a few physical copies and give it away. BG does not disappoint

[Tyler · Rating 2 out of 5]

Want to hear anecdotal evidence about millionaires from the 1980s quitting their high paying jobs and tapping into their extensive networks to “go all in” on their dream jobs, written by a literal venture capitalist millionaire whose net worth is estimated in the high hundred millions? Can you say out of touch?

The author has no working understanding of the current job market and difficulty of Millennials and Gen Z to carve out their place in a workforce where pay and employment prospects are shrinking each year (in 2026 the purchasing power of the minimum wage is at its lowest point in 68 years in the United States and the housing crisis has left nearly 75% of households unable to afford property while many spend every last dime they have on rent).

Glad it worked out for you, Bill, but for the rest of us it’s not going so well. Reader, you would be better off searching up guides on resume writing and figuring out a reasonable career path than reading this out of touch Boomer selling you on quitting your day job to chase your dreams while offering no practical advice on how to do so.

Like the title of this book, a hit song by Tom Petty released way back 1989, Bill’s perspective comes about 40 years too late. Do yourself a favor and put that $26 you’d pay for a hardcover towards a resume writer or career advisor who is actually qualified to speak about the job market.

2 Stars because the ghost writer did an excellent job on the prose (and my condolences for having to listen to Bill ramble about “the good old days when hard work mattered” for hours on end).

[Caroline Morris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Definitely my most anticipated release of the year and I will be very happy if this is the best book I read this year. Bill Gurley is such a gift and this book came as a gift at a perfect time for me in my career. I shall keep this one close to me on the shelf.

[Archit · Rating 5 out of 5]

Bill Gurley the goat

[Demetri · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Venture Capitalist Writes the Anti-Safe Career Manual: What “Runnin’ Down a Dream” Gets Uncomfortably Right About Ambition, Apprenticeship, and the Price of Playing Small
By Demetris Papadimitropoulos | February 17th, 2026


Watercolor Piece by Demetris Papadimitropoulos

“Runnin’ Down a Dream” arrives wearing two outfits at once: the clean, crisp blazer of a venture capitalist who has spent decades thinking in odds, incentives, and compounding advantage, and the broken-in denim of a storyteller who knows that the only ideas that travel are the ones that come with scenes, voices, and the faint smell of real rooms. Bill Gurley, writing with Michael J. Mooney’s magazine-bred momentum, has made a book that is both a permission slip and a set of field notes: a casebook of people who did not merely “follow their passion,” but treated desire as an operating system – one that must be debugged, stress-tested, and repeatedly updated in public.

The book’s premise is simple enough to fit on a conference badge: most people carry career regret; most advice is designed to prevent embarrassment; many dreams die less from lack of talent than from a quiet failure of nerve. What Gurley adds, almost stubbornly, is an insistence that dreaming is not a mood. It is a method. The heroes of “Runnin’ Down a Dream” do not wait for clarity to descend like sunlight. They manufacture it – through voracious learning, shameless outreach, iterative experiments, and a willingness to start at the bottom, inside the building, near the fluorescent hum of the work itself.

That emphasis on process is not incidental. Gurley is a man who has spent a career asking what causes outcomes – and what causes people to misread them. He is allergic to the tidy myth that greatness is either predestined or purely accidental. He likes edges: small asymmetries in information, training, network, timing, and stamina that look trivial until they compound into something that feels like fate. In his world, “luck” is real, but it is rarely alone in the room.

The book’s signature move is to borrow the narrative pleasure of biography while refusing biography’s oldest seduction: the idea that a life is a clean arc. Instead, Gurley treats careers as systems. Every profile becomes a little laboratory. Danny Meyer, Jen Atkin, Tony Fadell, Jay Sweet, Sal Khan, MrBeast – they are not presented as saints or unicorns, but as people who kept showing up to the same obsession until the obsession developed muscles. The emphasis is not on the glow of achievement, but on the gritty prehistory: the mail rooms, the assistant jobs, the self-funded flights, the embarrassing cold emails, the long days that look irrational from the outside because they are being evaluated with the wrong metric.

One of Gurley’s greatest strengths is that he writes ambition in the language of investment, not fantasy. He is drawn to the people who can look at a future that currently has “zero” odds and still decide to push it to ten percent. He has affection for the kind of audacity that is not mere bravado but an accounting decision: If I fail, will the attempt still be worth the cost? Is the pain a fee I’m willing to pay for the right to play?

It is in the Sam Hinkie chapter – the most explicitly probabilistic in spirit – that the book’s worldview becomes almost crystalline. Hinkie’s path from Oklahoma numbers kid to Bain analyst to the analytics-forward front offices of the Rockets and, eventually, the Philadelphia 76ers, is framed not as a parable about sports but as an anatomy of conviction under hostility. The story is not just that Hinkie embraced “The Process,” but that he understood what most institutions cannot tolerate: time horizons. “Runnin’ Down a Dream” keeps returning, like a refrain, to the notion that “the longest view in the room always wins.” It is a seductive line, and Gurley knows it – but he also seems genuinely moved by the tragedy embedded in it. Having the longest view can make you right. It can also make you lonely. It can also get you fired.

Here the book almost brushes against literature: the idea that a person can be punished for being early, for insisting on outcomes that will only be legible after they are gone. Hinkie’s tenure in Philadelphia – “complicated,” Gurley calls it, politely – becomes a lesson in the mismatch between rational planning and emotional ecosystems. To “trust the process” is not merely to accept delayed gratification. It is to accept public misunderstanding as part of the job. It is to live inside a narrative that will be rewritten by people who did not do the work but will later enjoy the harvest. There is something bitterly modern in that, recognizable far beyond basketball, in a decade when the labor of building often gets separated from the glory of “growth.”

Gurley’s own sections, especially the later personal narrative, add a second engine to the book: the pleasure of watching a mind explain itself. Gurley is at his most compelling when he is being specific – not about being “motivated,” but about learning how to learn. He tells stories the way an investor thinks: the detail is not decoration; it is the lever. A Palm Pilot with a preloaded list of conference attendees becomes an early thesis about distribution. A weekend locked in a walk-up apartment writing an industry report becomes a thesis about manufacturing opportunity through preparation. His repeated insistence on external learning – reading beyond your organization, your sector, your tribe – makes the book feel in dialogue with “Range,” with “Mindset,” with the great modern shelf of curiosity-as-discipline. But Gurley’s version is less therapeutic and more tactical. He does not ask, “What do you feel?” so much as, “Where is your edge coming from? And can you widen it?”

At times, this “edge” lens produces the book’s cleanest wisdom. Gurley’s people win because they keep putting themselves where information lives. They chase mentors. They chase peers. They chase rooms. One of the book’s quiet philosophies is that careers are not ladders but maps of access. If you want to do a thing, you must get close enough to smell it. You must learn the language and the culture and the unspoken rules. You must be in the building, not merely admiring the building from the outside.

This is why the book’s repeated fascination with “starting at the bottom” feels more than nostalgic. In an era of frictionless online identity – when it is possible to look like an expert long before you have earned any scars – Gurley is oddly old-fashioned about apprenticeship. He loves the idea of the mail room even as he acknowledges, almost wryly, that the literal mail room has vanished. The romance here is not about drudgery for its own sake. It is about proximity: the bottom rung as the place where you get to watch, to absorb, to become fluent in how value is actually created.

Still, a book this upbeat about “permission” inevitably wanders into the question it can’t fully answer: permission from whom? Gurley is not naïve. He is careful, in the conclusion, to stress that passion must be deep and that the work will hurt. He includes the naysayers, the parents who fear the rent, the advisers who want safety. He offers, with genuine warmth, the Gregg Lehrman idea that people who are willing to work hard in the industry they love tend to find a job – not necessarily riches, but a life with fewer regrets.

And yet: reading “Runnin’ Down a Dream” in 2026, it is hard not to feel the gravitational pull of the world outside its pages. The book is written against a background of widening inequality, student debt that behaves like weather, and a labor market increasingly reshaped by automation and algorithmic hiring. The internet has made certain forms of ambition easier (learning is cheap; distribution is cheap; building a public body of work is easier than ever) and other forms crueler (entry-level pathways evaporate; gigs replace jobs; “always on” becomes the cost of visibility). Gurley nods at this modernity – he cannot help it; he is a creature of tech’s ecosystem – but the book’s structure, built on success stories, sometimes glides past the jagged reality that not everyone can afford the “unpaid intern” chapter of their life. Not everyone can take the roadshow. Not everyone has a spouse who can drive them to the office while they sleep on an inflatable mattress and work from dawn to midnight.

This is not a moral indictment so much as a measurement. A reader may find themselves admiring the book’s ethos while also wanting a harder confrontation with the system that makes “dreaming” feel like a privilege product. Gurley believes, sincerely, that hard work plus methodical process plus curiosity can bend probability. He is not wrong. But there are places where probability is not just a math problem. It is a policy problem. It is a healthcare problem. It is a discrimination problem. The book’s optimism is partly what makes it enjoyable – the feeling that life can still be chosen – yet optimism can also become a kind of lighting trick, brightening the stage while leaving the backstage underexposed.

The book is at its best when it refuses lighting tricks. It is strongest in its insistence that failure is not the opposite of success but the raw material of it. Gurley’s affection for “failing gracefully,” his willingness to describe careers as experiments, feels unusually compatible with the moment. Many readers are coming to books like this not because they are dreamy, but because they are tired: tired of work that feels like slow erosion, tired of corporate loyalty narratives that have collapsed into quarterly language, tired of watching entire industries redraw themselves overnight. In that sense, “Runnin’ Down a Dream” belongs in a shelf that includes “The Power of Regret” and “Designing Your Life,” but with a more kinetic, street-level American confidence: don’t just reflect – prototype.

Mooney’s influence is felt in how quickly the book gets to the good parts. The profiles are shaped like stories, not lectures. You can feel the writerly pleasure in the small choices: the burritos across from Stanford, the Southwest Airlines roadshow, the conference lobby where the future is sitting on a folding table for sale. Gurley’s voice, too, is distinctive: the blend of coach and investor, the man who can’t help turning a life into a set of variables – but who also, surprisingly often, lets tenderness leak through. He loves mentors. He loves the assistant who can solve anything. He loves the colleague who shares a model. He loves the idea that you can build a career not only by competing but by joining a community of high-metabolism learners and then giving back to it.

That “give back” principle is the book’s moral spine. For all its talk of edge, it is not ultimately a book about domination. It is a book about contribution – contribution to a craft, to a field, to a network of peers. It is also, implicitly, a book about the pleasures of being fully awake inside your own work. Gurley keeps returning to the sensation of enthusiasm: the urge to read just one more thing, to stay late not because you fear punishment but because you can’t stop thinking. He quotes Tom Petty on paying the rent. He borrows from James Clear’s “optimize for enthusiasm.” He argues, in essence, that the only sustainable hustle is the kind that feels like appetite.

There is a risk in that message, too. In a culture that already fetishizes productivity, “enthusiasm” can sound like a demand to be endlessly on fire. But Gurley’s best passages do not read like a burnout manifesto. They read like a defense of aliveness – a plea to refuse the modern flattening where work is only survival and “meaning” is postponed until retirement, as if the self can be stored in a warehouse until later.

So how should we read “Runnin’ Down a Dream”? Not as gospel. Not as a universal plan. But as a beautifully engineered set of stories that can be used as tools. The book is most helpful when it turns the vague ache of “I want something else” into action: write the report; send the letters; take the class; build the portfolio; get in the building; find the peers who sharpen you; let failure teach you; keep the long view; and, when you have anything to offer, offer it.

If the book sometimes underplays the unevenness of the playing field, it compensates with a rare generosity of spirit. It does not sneer at ordinary jobs. It does not glamorize risk for its own sake. It insists, again and again, on the simplest radical idea: life is use-it-or-lose-it, and regret is not a verdict but a signal.

There are more elegant books about meaning and work, and more rigorous books about structural labor economics, and more skeptical books about the mythology of hustle. But few are as readable, as humane, or as insistently practical as this one. “Runnin’ Down a Dream” is the kind of career book that understands the secret of all persuasive nonfiction: people don’t change because they are told to. They change because they can suddenly picture themselves inside a different story.

And that, finally, is what Gurley and Mooney offer – not a blueprint, but a repertoire of possible selves, narrated with enough momentum to make you stand up from the couch, look at your own life as if it were a set of probabilities, and ask the dangerous, invigorating question: What would it look like to push the odds?

My rating: 86/100.

[Alejandro Botero · Rating 4 out of 5]

Every time Bill Gurley talks, I listen. Every time Bill Gurley writes, I read. One of the GOATs.

[Jake McSweeney · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really should take in a lot of career risk

Good read for motivation

Also makes me want to live in a startup incubator

[Jake Taylor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book gets a four because Bill Gurley has good taste in people. The stories he selects happen to be some of my favorite “doers”. I also appreciate the humanizing of greatness in an era that doesn’t embrace that as much.

[Steve Lacey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Runnin’ Down a Dream

What a sensational book for “young” people of any age to read and live. Nothing contributed more to my success than working hard and chasing passions. It has never been articulated better than Bill does in this book. His interview on CNBC about the book is super too.

[Mi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Ultimately, this book is classic, old-school American advice: Do what you love. And that advice may still work if you are brilliant at what you do. But the vast majority of people cannot be “above average” at their work by definition. Labor market competition has increased significantly in the last few decades as well—making good work more competitive to come by.

There will be a crowd of people who follow this book’s advice to great success—mostly (although, not exclusively) the well-connected, well-educated, well-resourced crowd.

There will also be another crowd of people from humbler backgrounds who will follow this book’s advice without success. More likely to be met by that forever-tough question of “what do you do when you’ve worked hard for years, and things still don’t work out?” Sure, there will be outliers who succeed. But, without significant resources to fall back on, there is also a high chance that this book is delivering the wrong message to this second group.

[Jordan Schneider · Rating 3 out of 5]

not an unhelpful thing to read--would've been more useful to me a few years ago.

I quite liked the Bob Dylan, Danny Meyer and Newport Folk Festival chapters, others felt like Gurley giving his friends love. The sports anecdotes are surface level, even though he knows ball he writes for an audience that doesn't which makes sports seem really dumb. I'd be interested in the contrast he sees between the leadership you need to do things with tightly bounded rules and win conditions like get 5 guys to win a basketball game vs be a successful founder.

The problem with this book is that this is the guy who got travis kalanick fired over the weekend his mother died, and all the advice is"be a nice good person thank everyone give out good vibes work hard and things will work out". It was probably the right thing for Uber and Benchmark's investors to fire Travis but that was a hard decision which isn't just like being nice to everyone! Grappling more with the less mass-market-paperback bits of what Gurley has seen in himself and others that make them successful would have been more compelling.

I need to try to write an hour a day.

"find fascinating, fascination is way better than passion"-seinfeld. If you're fascinated, you'll want to be curious about it.

'live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you had forever to learn'-gandhi
I wanna learn about that

[Elena Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Runnin Down a Dream presents a grounded and practical exploration of what it means to build a career that aligns with both ambition and personal fulfillment. What makes the book stand out is its focus on clarity over complexity, offering insights that feel directly applicable rather than abstract or overly theoretical. It speaks to a common tension many professionals face, the gap between external success and internal satisfaction.

The strength of the book lies in its ability to break down career development into understandable and actionable components. Rather than framing success as a fixed endpoint, it positions it as an evolving process shaped by decisions, mindset, and adaptability. This approach makes the content feel relevant to a wide range of readers, from those just starting out to those reassessing their direction.

What lingers most is the emphasis on alignment. The idea that a meaningful career is not just about achievement, but about building something that resonates on a personal level, gives the book a strong and lasting message. The tone remains practical and focused, reinforcing the sense that these ideas are meant to be implemented, not just considered. The result is a guide that feels both realistic and motivating.

[Stephen Kleiman · Rating 5 out of 5]

I tore through Runnin’ Down a Dream in two days and didn’t expect it to stay with me the way it has. What stood out most was the through line of curiosity. So many of the people Gurley profiles were changed by a single book they picked up at the right moment or a conversation with a mentor who shifted their trajectory. None of them followed a straight path, and none of them did it alone. There’s a consistent message about being relentlessly curious, reaching out to people in your field, asking questions even when it feels uncomfortable, and not being too proud to start at the lowest rung just to get in the room. The stories of Bobby Knight, MrBeast, Mike Leach, and Danny Meyer make it clear that ambition is not about optics, it’s about leaning into what genuinely pulls at you and having the courage to follow it. Just as important is the idea that you build your tribe by giving back and sharing what you learn along the way. More than anything, this book made me reflect on whether I’m really chasing what excites me or just riding momentum. For anyone who feels like they left a little dream on the table, this could be the book that shows up at exactly the right time.

[Shanu Mathew · Rating 4 out of 5]

I could see a lot of folks engaging with the content and landing at a 2-3 and saying it is quite obvious, very surface level, and not particularly insightful. But, often times, the best advice is the simplest and the older I get I find there is no secret formula to success. It's more realistically the output of a great process, attitude, and consistency of showing up - which this book drives home with its key principles. I like the alternating chapters between someone's life story then Bill's commentary/analysis. He looks at a variety of industries and types of people and the different methods of how they broke into their industries. It's a nice reminder to take control of your career and be intentional with how you curate a network within it. Bill is one of the greatest investors of this generation and seeing his admiration for how so many others broke into their craft was a very enjoyable & easy read!

[Maxwell Dejean · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was originally expecting this book to follow Bill Gurley’s life and give the usual examples of why you should chase your passion. I was pleasantly surprised by the actual structure: he tells a story about someone else chasing their dream, then spends about ten pages breaking down the specific lessons we should take from that person’s journey.

The book was very inspirational and it’s full of additional recommendations to check out. For me, the biggest piece of advice was the idea that you need a genuine fascination with a subject and the grit to become the most knowledgeable person in that field. Success eventually follows once people realize the value of what you can provide. It’s the combination of fascination and grit that lets you keep up that high level of energy over a long period of time while you're putting all your effort into expanding your knowledge.

[Harold Poston · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bill Gurley has written a book that feels less like career advice and more like a well-curated collection of stories about people who bet on themselves and won. The profiles are the heart of it, and they’re what linger. The Bob Knight chapter stands out not for the familiar intensity-and-championships narrative, but for something quieter: how Knight absorbed everything he could from the coaches above him, treating every rung of the ladder as a classroom. The Danny Meyer story carries a similar lesson about curiosity and craft applied patiently over time.

Runnin’ Down a Dream is an energizing read, the kind that makes you put it down and take stock of whether you’re really pursuing what pulls at you.

[Justin Davis · Rating 4 out of 5]

I finished this just after turning 35, and the number of stories about people finding their vocational stride in their 30s, 40s, and beyond gave me a real opportunity to reflect. What are the outcomes I want to drive in this next season, both vocationally and non-vocationally?

The throughline on the importance of like-minded peers really stood out to me. Having a strong network of people who can sharpen one another and find ways to win together. It’s making me question whether I have a well-enough-established network of peers aligned to what I believe God has called me to do.

Overall I found the book really enjoyable. Strong emphasis on stories, and the examples he used did well to illuminate the points he was making.

[Jeff Berman · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m on a run of graduation present books and while this definitely falls in that category, it’s for anyone of any age looking for the inspiration to find and follow true north.

One of the final chapters, Success At Any Age, starts with this from George Eliot: “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”

As Bill Gurley goes on to write, “There’s a particular type of regret that keeps people awake long into quiet nights-the kind that’s born not from the mistakes they’ve made but from the risks they never took. Daniel Pink, in his book The Power of Regret, calls these ‘boldness regrets.’ They haunt us not because we tried and failed but because we never found the courage to try at all.”

Here’s to the boldness of trying.

[Siyun · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty underwhelming. Perhaps I have too high an expectation.

It wasn't bad but for all the inspiring stories / example, the writing - verbose, did itself a disservice.

Compared to other entrepreneurship books, such as 'Build' by Tony Fadell or 'The Hard Thing about Building the Hard Thing' from Horowitz, 'Runin Down a Dream'just lacks the authenticity and passion I was seeking.

With the formers, one can feel the blood, sweat and tears, as well as hard earned wisdom punching through the pages.

I guess that's the difference between being an entrepreneur vs. working with entrepreneurs as a VC. Even as the top 'entrepreneurs whisperer' at the most successful VC firm in the valley.

[Vince Wu · Rating 3 out of 5]

I felt Gurley leaned too hard on a forced distinction between being "passionate" and being "fascinated." He defines "passion" so narrowly that it just feels like a strawman argument, excluding the capability to keep working at something with grit & resilience.

I do agree that "following your passion" often doesn't work out for people:
(1) A lack of exploration: You can't follow a passion you haven't discovered yet.
(2) A lack of realism: You have to love the "boring" parts of the craft just as much as the "fun" parts.
(3) A lack of agility: You have to expect change. And it's hard to shed what no longer works.

[Cody Pritchett · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great—loved the stories to illustrate the principles and how those stories let me into the minds and lives of people who were chasing a dream. I really resonated with these dreamers. Being a dreamer can feel lonely but I found friends on the journey in these stories.

The principles were great and the perspective to chase your dreams, passions, and authentic calling despite what others say or what seems practical is inspiring to me in this season of figuring out what’s next. His book helped to remove the limitations I or others put on myself—and gives me a different perspective.

[Denny Troncoso · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very well researched and written book about pursuing fulfilling work. The book is engaging containing stories I mostly have never heard before. That is powerful as I read these types of book often. In his words you can tell Bill really cares about the topic. Highly recommend for those unhappy with their current career or young people starting their career path or educational journey. The book puts fire in your belly!

[Sunil Rajasekar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am a fan of Bill Gurley’s straight talking and down to earth style.

This book is a thoughtful and very practical reflection on building a meaningful career and making thoughtful decisions along the way. I’m a little later in my career, but I still found the book interesting and relevant. Bill shares practical perspectives from his time as a venture capitalist and keeping the advice grounded and accessible.

[Lucas · Rating 2 out of 5]

wish I had not..

Truly wish I hadn’t read this book so i didn’t have to rate it.

Gurley is an amazing individual with so much to contribute but this book did nothing for me.

Having said this, this is a completely unfair review since I’m not the target of the book.

I believe if I read this book in my teens or early twenties I would have loved it.

Next, I would love to read a book by Bill on his investment process.

[Brian Tan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Big fan of BG. Easy to read and fun, was always looking forward to the next story. Thought it could have been a little shorter but I enjoyed it. Great lessons about finding what you are passionate (enthusiastic sounds better) about and how if you love it enough, you’ll be good at it, and then you can make a career out of it. Stories followed the same formula. I would consider 4.5 stars but not 5 because it felt like the same advice repeated throughout.

[Ryan Zink · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good nuggets of wisdom in this book delivered through interesting stories of highly entrepreneurial, successful people.

There is a loose central theme throughout the book and Gurley summarizes at the end; however the book feels a bit more of just a collection of mini biographies than a cohesive work with this strong thread throughout. Nevertheless, this is still an excellent book and should be required reading for anyone with even a modicum of entrepreneurship.

Four stars.

[Julius Genachowski · Rating 5 out of 5]

A masterclass on how to have a career you love. Both fun to read and practical, Runnin’ Down a Dream is filled with “aha!” moments - ideas you know are right the minute you read them. If you’re struggling with your career path, or know someone who is, Bill Gurley’s insights can be life-changing. Strongest recommendation

[Dave Applegate · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had a hard time reviewing this book. Here are my random thoughts:

1) This book is VERY well written. It's easy to read and convincing.

2) I agree w/ 100% of what this book says.

3) I'm not 100% sure I'm the right audience here. I've read 100s of business books. But, this book felt kind of obvious. E.x. Reading a lot, being around smart people, finding mentors, etc.