Mentors, you say? - by Simone Brunozzi - Quantilla
Fred Wilson, a VC (Venture Capitalist) I quite like and admire, talks about Mentors, in particular about the two mentors that shaped his professional life. Here’s two important passages:
The thing about mentors is you can’t really ask someone to mentor you. It kind of happens organically. Someone takes you under their wing. They see something in you and want to bring it out, develop it.
I agree. But I think Fred’s post is missing a crucial element: most of us can’t have lunch with Bliss McCrum Jr, and therefore most people can’t have him as a mentor (that lunch is how Fred got a job at Euclid Partners, and eventually Bliss became one of the most important mentors of his life). Mentorship is great… If you can have it. But what about the rest of us?
Most of us can’t have lunch with Bliss Fred Wilson went to MIT and did an MBA at Wharton. He grew up white, in the US. His first language is English. He’s male. And yes, he admits he’s been lucky (I told you he’s a nice guy). His hard work, his talent, and his life lottery ticket allowed him to have two great mentors while he worked at Euclid Partners. One of them was Bliss McCrum Jr.
