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I was lying flat on my back.
I had slipped on a sheet of ice outside of my 500-square-foot apartment
in western Wisconsin. The thermometer hit zero that morning—20 degrees
colder if you counted the windchill. I had torn my only suit, an expensive
Italian outfit I had proudly purchased in San Francisco a few days earlier
before getting in my car and driving 2,000 miles to take my first television
job as a morning news anchor.
As I was lying on the sidewalk in the early morning freeze, looking up at
a decaying apartment complex in the worst part of town, a number of
questions raced through my mind: Had I made the right decision to give up
law school—the “safe” choice—to pursue my passion—a career in
broadcast journalism? Would I be stuck making $15,000 a year for the rest
of my career? Would my father, who had landed on these shores as an
Italian immigrant with $20 in his pocket after World War II, have been
proud of my decision, or would the former prisoner of war have felt that his
son was squandering an opportunity to make it in America?
I didn’t have an answer to all of my questions at the moment, but I
reached two conclusions. First, it’s best to buy two-for-one suits, preferably
at a discount, if you can barely afford to pay your $400 monthly rent.
Second, that following my passion would be really, really tough, even
harder than the ice I had just cracked with my head. And with that I got up,
picked up my papers, now stuck on the frozen pavement, wiped the snow
off my suit, and continued on my way to work. I wasn’t prepared for the
Wisconsin winter, but I was prepared to face whatever obstacle would come
next because, ultimately, you don’t choose your passion; it chooses you.
Twenty-five years later I found myself asking the question again: Why
am I here? In May 2014, I had been invited to speak at an exclusive
gathering of entrepreneurs and CEOs attending the Khosla Ventures
Summit at a resort at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge in Marin County.
The event’s host, billionaire venture capitalist Vinod Khosla, had personally
invited me, though initially, I couldn’t see why. The other speakers included
Bill Gates; Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page; Salesforce CEO
Marc Benioff; former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice; and former
British prime minister Tony Blair. During an elegant dinner on the first
night of the conference, as I felt like the only person in the room who
needed an introduction, I began to question my role at the event: I’m not a
billionaire. I haven’t eradicated smallpox. Or run a country.
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