MIKE JACKSON
(introduced in
Rule #2
)
Current job:
Mike is a director at the Westly
Group, a cleantech venture capital
firm on Silicon Valley’s famous
Sand Hill Road.
Why he loves what he does:
Clean-energy venture capital is a
hot field. It offers a way to help the
world while at the same time, as
Mike admitted, “You make a lot of
money.”
How he applied the rules
described in this book to get this
job:
Mike didn’t start with a clear vision
of what he wanted to do with his
life. He did understand, however,
the basics of career capital theory:
The more rare and valuable skills
you have to offer, the more
interesting opportunities will
become available. With this in
mind, Mike formed his early career
around the goal of dominating one
valuable pursuit after another,
trusting that the large stores of
career capital this would generate
would lead him somewhere worth
going. He started by choosing an
ambitious master’s thesis project
that ended up making him an expert
on international carbon markets. He
then leveraged this expertise to run
a green-energy start-up that sold
carbon offsets contracts to
American companies.
This combination of expert
knowledge on green-energy
markets and entrepreneurship
experience made him a perfect
match for the Westly Group, the
clean-energy venture capital firm
where he now works. Throughout
this process, Mike’s focus was on
how to get better, not on figuring
out his true calling. The result was
an enviable job.
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