Saw the talk by Jennifer Hyman, Co-founder and CEO, Rent the Runway.
It was a great talk because Jennifer got into the recesses of building a business as well as the upside and that honesty is what makes for a real talk.
I loved this part as she was wrapping up the conversation.
I've seen that there are a lot of, luminary people and they come here and they talk about, their career success and, give this notion that, what we're trying to achieve is being at the top. But it's like if we all think about our lives that way of trying to get to some destination, you're not going to be happy, the life is about the journey.
The thing that I'm proud of about Rent the Runway is that, everyday moments over the past 15 years where I've just had the time of my life. Who really cares? What is being at the top mean? Does that mean an extra X million dollars in the bank? What is that really going to bring to me? So I think that we should just all think about, the goal is the journey and enjoying it.
The goal is what is optimized around making you happy. And for some of you, that's going to be very career related, but for many of you it might not be, and that is totally okay.
And part of what you should be doing here, is figuring out like what fundamentally about you is going to make you happy?
Like the realization for me going back to my childhood is that, it's community that makes me happy. And so, entrepreneurship is just my way to like pay people to be around me all day long, right. So I've built my own community and that makes me really happy, and I've built other communities of my family and friends, etcetera. But like, I just don't think that many of the people that I used to, when I was in business school and I looked up and I said, well, they've created a multi-billion dollar company. They're sitting here, they're a billionaire, they're successful. It's like, If you really talk to a lot of those people, like that's not how they measure even themselves.
Like there are so many aspects of, your life that are, you couldn't achieve all of this career success and if you don't have the other things in your life that you really care about, it's really not going to be that meaningful. So we have to focus on like the whole picture.
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